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Quotation dates: 1815
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RAPE, adv. Hastily, quickly. Arch. and prob. quoted from Montgomerie's The Cherrie and the Slae 884.Rxb. 1815 J. Ruickbie Poems 104:
Then rude and rape a bairnie scream'd.
