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  • Cause — but, as we have hitherto maintain'd it by Gadly cozenage, and pious frauds, let us persevere — ah, let us persevere to the end; let us not lose our Heritage for a Mess of Pottage, that is, let us not lose the Cause for Dissimulation and Hypocrisie, those two main

    The Roundheads: or, The Good Old Cause 1682

  • Cause -- but, as we have hitherto maintain'd it by gadly Cozenage, and pious Frauds, let us persevere -- ah, let us persevere to the end; let us not lose our Heritage for a Mess of Pottage, that is, let us not lose the Cause for Dissimulation and Hypocrisy, those two main Engines that have earned on the great Work.

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

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    Superhero Prose Fiction: People - Pottage Blue Tyson 2008

  • Or something better when you sign up for winged pyramid service? and the newsletter! catch this thrown book at Chamberpot Publishers, as Pottage of the Month.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • We whiz past the post office in Pease Pottage, where I used to buy large round sherbet lollipops that lasted for hours.

    The English American Alison Larkin 2008

  • Long Experience hath shewn that the Levellers' Eden does not nourish the Tree of Liberty, whose Branches are Shelter for Men who would not trade their Freedom for a Mess o' Pottage.

    "Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime." Ann Althouse 2008

  • We whiz past the post office in Pease Pottage, where I used to buy large round sherbet lollipops that lasted for hours.

    The English American Alison Larkin 2008

  • We whiz past the post office in Pease Pottage, where I used to buy large round sherbet lollipops that lasted for hours.

    The English American Alison Larkin 2008

  • We whiz past the post office in Pease Pottage, where I used to buy large round sherbet lollipops that lasted for hours.

    The English American Alison Larkin 2008

  • Since the time of my resorting hither, I have daily seene many poore people at your doore, and (out of your abundance) when you and your Brethren have fed sufficiently, every one hath had a good messe of Pottage: now Sir, if for every dishfull given, you are sure to receive an hundred againe, you will all be meerely drowned in pottage.

    The Decameron 2004

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