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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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*Im, contracted from I am (Be v.¹) as also in 17th c. e.m.E. —a 1624 Edinb. Univ. MS. La. ii. 319.
Im first to blise thy litill toung [etc.]