pease

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• So we had a dish of mackerell and pease, and so he bid us good night, going to lie on board the hoy, and I to bed. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, May/Jun 1662
• Among the many desirable things our parents brought us the most delightful was cow pease, rice, and a piece of bacon, cooked together; the mixture was called by the slaves “hopping John.” —  My Life In The South
• Dinner was a bowl full of thick pease-porridge and a slice of oat bread, and breakfast was more of the bread, toasted this time, with a bit of butter and a trickle of honey. —  The Lark And The Wren
• “Sometimes we used bacon and buttered pease, sometimes buttered bag pudding, made with currants and raisins, sometimes drinked pottage of beer and oatmeal, and sometimes water pottage well buttered.” —  Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
• However read it, as your pease are shelling; —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland

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