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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Middle English plural of eye.

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  • Satyriens in dyuers Poesyes conioyned repreued the synnes and ylnes of the peple at that tyme lyuynge: so and in lyke wyse this our Boke representeth vnto the iyen of the redars the states and condicions of men: so that euery man may behold within the same the cours of his lyfe and his mysgouerned maners, as he sholde beholde the shadowe of the fygure of his visage within

    The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 Sebastian Brant 1489

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