TO LEAP THE PALE, verb. phr. (old colloquial).—To break bounds; to exceed.

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  1593.  SHAKESPEARE, Comedy of Errors, ii. 1, 100.

        But, too unruly deer, he BREAKS THE PALE
And feeds from home.

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  1609.  The Man in the Moone, sig. C. 4. If you proceede as you have begunne,… your LEAPING THE PALE will cause you looke pale.

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  1847.  TENNYSON, The Princess, ii.

                            Deep, indeed,
Their debt of thanks to her who first had dared
TO LEAP THE rotten PALES of prejudice.

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