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sett out nor intended for y
Dudley: That this ship-Frindship was not sett out nor intended for y e joynt partnership of y e plantation, but for y e perticuler accounte of M r .
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

sober one night in forty years
The ducs d'Orléans and Vendôme were addicted to infamous debauchery; the Duc d'Antin was caught, flagrante delicto , in theft; drunkenness and gambling were prevalent at court, the Grand Prieur de Vendôme boasted that he had not gone to bed sober one night in forty years.
— from Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton


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