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perch — “By many a dern and painful,” PERICLES, iii. Gower, 15. “A perch is a measure of five yards and a half,” says Steevens, and truly enough; but the unknown author of this portion of Pericles (using here the word for the sake of a rhyme) thought no more about the exact measure of a perch than Milton did about that of a rood, when he tells us that Satan“lay floating many a rood.”

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