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1605.  Chapman, All Fools, V. ii. 68. Val. Ile be their pledge. For. Not yet Valerio; This hee must drinke unpledgd.

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1630.  J. Taylor (Water P.), Thiefe, Wks. II. 123/1. If a Drunkard be vnpledgd a kan.

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1741–2.  Gray, Agrippina, 21. They are aware Of th’ unpledg’d bowl.

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1823.  S. Rogers, Italy, 160. For deeds of violence … came the unpledged bowl, The stab of the stiletto.

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1834.  Moore, Mem. (1856), VII. 24. Sir Robert Peel … is unpledged to any one for his next turn at the Charter House.

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