Shrove Tuesday

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Never a time that the courtiers or collegiates come to the house, but you make it a Shrove-tuesday!

From Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Jonson, Ben

Q. Do you mean that Shrove-tuesday was your child's birth-day, or that Sunday?

From The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814 by Gurney, William Brodie