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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Dolly Murrey.
 
A character in Crabbe’s Borough, who died playing cards.
       
“‘A vole! a vole!’ she cried, ‘’tis fairly won.
This said she, gently, with a single sigh,
Died as one taught and practised how to die.”
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Crabbe: Borough.
 


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