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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1499-1500
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Care-bed, Cair-bed, n. [Care n. Cf. ON. kör (gen. karar) sickbed.] A bed of sickness. — a1400 Legends of the Saints xxiv. 212.
In care bed scho lay ay done a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 1168.
Till hire chalmer scho hir sped In languor and in cair bed
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