or farde, subs. phr. (old).—The lowest limit of value.

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  1642.  ROGERS, Naaman the Syrian, 33. As bare and beggarly as if he had not one BRASSE FARTHING.

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  1880.  Punch’s Almanac, 5.

        Nobby button’oler very well
When one wants to do the ’eavy swell;
Otherwise don’t care not one BRASS FARDEN,
For the best ever blowed in Covent Garden.

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  1880.  BESANT and RICE, The Seamy Side, x., 78. I care not one BRASS FARTHING.

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