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“1586, William Warner, Albion's England, Booke VI, Chapter XXXI, 1810, The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume IV, page 579,
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“I smiled; and she went on to say I looked a little more peart; maybe I would not be such a slow coach after all.”
“"[…]No young man could 'a' ben more peart and alive than that, Dotty."”
Formspearter(comparative) · peartest(superlative) · Pearts(plural)