1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy,[…], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 3:
But put case they continue; thou art not so poor as thou wast born […]
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Put case that the soul after departure from the body may live.