"strawbryes" intended in "sucrye of strabyrs", 1683?

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Gordon, Matthew J.
<GordonMJ at missouri.edu> wrote:
> But perhaps even better: Â I finally had a flash of sense ... Â what
> was intended was "strawbryes"! Â A spelling to be found at 1565, in
> Arthur Golding's translation of Ovid -- "Thyself shalt with thy hand
> The soft sweete strawbryes gather". Â Although this is _the only
> instance of this spelling revealed by Google Books_.
>

Well, let that be true. But, so what, if it may be a hapax? It works for me! ;-)

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-Wilson
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