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does not grow to the same height.

Original French:  ne croiſt en pareille haulteur.

Modern French:  ne croist en pareille haulteur.


Croist

Croistre. To increase, grow, thrive, wax bigger, augment; swell, or rise in height, shoot up; come on apace.

Randle Cotgrave [–1634?]
A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongue
London: Adam Islip, 1611
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Posted 22 January 2013. Modified 26 November 2014.

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