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Ere ever. (Saxon, œr, before.)
“Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio.”
Shakespeare: Hamlet, i. 2.
“Dying or ere they sicken.”
Macbeth, iv. 3.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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