not a sou, or souse, subs. (B. E. and GROSE).—Nothing.

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  1761.  CHURCHILL, The Rosciad, 309.

        Next came the treasurer of either house;
One with full purse, t’ other with NOT A SOUS.

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  1812.  COLMAN, Poetical Vagaries, 30. That, you may tell me, matters NOT A SOUSE.

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  1837.  R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends (The Cynotaph). NOT A SOUS had he got,—not a guinea or note.

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