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Quotation dates: 1681
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(Slepines,) Slippines, n. (e.m.E. sleepinesse (1580).) —1681 Brodie Diary 464, 465.
My wonted frame of drusines, and slippines, and securitie, was upon me. When sal Sathan's bonds be brok?