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  • Make pleasaunce to the sense, botte maie do lyttel scathe [13].

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • I wolde not lose ye lyttel lamb that Godde hath lent to me;

    A Little Book of Western Verse Eugene Field 1872

  • A lyttel childe that ben a lyttel lambkyn of his owne;

    A Little Book of Western Verse Eugene Field 1872

  • Soe come, my lyttel childe, and lie upon my breast to-night,

    A Little Book of Western Verse Eugene Field 1872

  • Come hither, lyttel childe, and lie upon my breast to-night,

    A Little Book of Western Verse Eugene Field 1872

  • To them that have no lyttel childe Godde sometimes sendeth down

    A Little Book of Western Verse Eugene Field 1872

  • He was allowed no weapon but "a lyttel Scots spere," which was the only thing of all "her lordes faire gere" that his mother carried to the wood with her.

    The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831

  • He was allowed no weapon but "a lyttel Scots spere," which was the only thing of all "her lordes faire gere" that his mother carried to the wood with her.

    The Age of Chivalry Thomas Bulfinch 1831

  • The voice he followes, ready to imparte His generous ayde, inieniible to feerc I Jufte in the centre of a lyttel woode.

    The Monthly Review 1793

  • "My father has riden to London and I would faine not be without manlie companie in so grate an house (olde Digger being worthie and trustie but a lyttel deaf and stiffe).

    The Slowcoach 1903

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