lustie

• “Trout bold and lustie, and he is usually fatter, and better meat at the end of that month, then at any time of the year.”

  The Compleat Angler

• “True it is, that he was very farre entred into yeares, but yong and lustie in his own proud conceite, presuming strangely beyond his capacity, and thinking as well of his abilitie, as the youthfullest gallant in the World could doe.”

  The Decameron

• “Not long since, there lived in Naples, an honest meane man, who did take to Wife, a fayre and lustie young Woman, being named”

  The Decameron

• “Heereupon, perceiving his wonted forme to be so altered, that such as formerly had conversed most with him, could now not take any knowledge of him, and feeling his body (through long labour and exercise endured in service) more lustie then in his idle youthfull yeeres, especially when he left the Court of France, hee purposed to proceede in his determination.”

  The Decameron

• “Let me then tell you, that at Varlungo, which you know to bee not farre distant hence, there dwelt an youthfull Priest, lustie, gallant, and proper of person (especially for Womens service) commonly called by the name of sweet Sir Simon.”

  The Decameron

• “A lustie youthfull Priest of Varlungo, fell in love with a pretty woman, named Monna Belcolore.”

  The Decameron

• “Their women in old tyme, had all the trade of occupiyng, and brokage11 abrode, and reuelled at the Tauerne, and kepte lustie chiere: And the men satte at home spinnyng, and woorkyng of Lace, and suche other thynges as women are wonte.”

  The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie

• “Wedensdaie and Fridaie, nothyng at al. Saturdaie and Sondaie, thei eate flesshe and made lustie chiere.”

  The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie

• “Written in the lustie moneth of May in our Palace, where many a million of louers true haue habitation,”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “And this scant and miserable maner of liuing, both the horse and his Master can well endure, sometimes for the space of two moneths, lustie, and in good state of body.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

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