occy
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"Ocy, ocy," is supposed to come from the Latin "occidere," to kill; or rather the old French, "occire," "occis," denoting the doom which the nightingale imprecates or supplicates on all who do offence to Love.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing
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