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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1568
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Aforrow, Afforrow, adv. [From Forrow adv., after Afore.] Before, previously. c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxiii. 7.
Oft with wysmen it hes bene said aforrow, Without glaidnes awailis no tressour 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 103.
In to my garth I past, … This bird and I, as we wer wount afforrow c1552 Id. Mon. 1053.
All plesour that thow had afforrow a1568 Bannatyne MS 231 b/22.
Than is all the sorrow furth of remembrance That evir I had a forrow
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