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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Pewter

To scour the pewter, To do one's work.

But if she neatly scour her pewter,
Give her the money that is dust' her.

King: Orpheus and Eurydice.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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