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English citations of bay
(A horse of that color):
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- 1685, Matthew Prior, “A Satyr on the modern Translators”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, page 22:
- Each little Wit to your Tribunal came
To hear their doom, and to secure their Fame:
But for Respect you servilely sought Praise,
Slighted the Umpire’s Palm to court the Poet’s Bayes;
- 1850, Gwine to Run All Night (Camptown Races), Stephen Foster
- I’ll bet my money on de bob-tail nag,
- Somebody bet on de bay.
- 1858, The Deacon’s Masterpiece, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Here comes the wonderful one-horse shay,
- Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay.