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1585.  Greene, Planetomachia, H 4. Hee that seeketh to haue his purpose vnpreuented.

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1602.  Campion, Art Eng. Poesie, iv. 10. The more secure, the more the stroke we feele Of vnpreuented harms.

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1667.  Milton, P. L., III. 231. Shall grace not find means, that … Comes unprevented, unimplor’d, unsought?

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1735.  Thomson, Liberty, III. 499. The meanly-patient death, That waits a tyrant’s unprevented stroke.

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