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Quotation dates: 1513
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Hot(e, Hoit, Hoyt, adv. [ME. hote, hoote adopted, in rhyme, for Sc. Hate.] Hotly, quickly. (As a rhyme-tag.) — 1513 Doug. iv. v. 127.
[Mercury] othir sum … gan schet full hoyt [R. hot] Deip in the sorofull grisly hellys pote 1513 Ib. viii. viii. 10.
Apon his feit hys meit schoys hote [Sm. hoit] War buklyt, on the gys of Tuscany
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