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101what you spend, you have — The original of quot. 1579, which is quoted inexactly by Spenser, was the epitaph on the tomb of Edward Courtenay Earl of Devon (d. 1509) and his wife in St. Peter’s church, Tiverton, Devon. c 1300 in M. R. James Catalogue of Library Pembroke… …
102hobnob — [18] In Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Sir Toby Belch says ‘Hob, nob, is his word: give’t or take’t’; from which it has been deduced that the hob of hobnob represents have and that the nob represents the now obsolete nave ‘not have’ (formed in the… …
103chabbe — I chabbe is sometimes written in ME. southern dial. for ichabbe = ich habbe, I have …
