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(Scurge-the-poor,) Scourge-the-poor. [Scurge v.] = Scurger n. 2. — 1681 Fountainhall Decis. I 137.
In Scotland, having no Bedlam, we commit the better sort of mad people to the care and tameing of chirurgeons, and the inferior to the scourge [Errata Scourge-the-poor]