subs. (old).—Hell.

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  1837.  R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends (The Brothers of Birchington).

                Now if here such affairs
        Get wind unawares,
They are bruited about, doubtless much more ‘DOWN STAIRS,’
Where Old Nick has a register-office, they say,
With commissioners quite of such matters au fait.

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