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Quin etiam tunc in organis et tympanis cæterisque musicis instrumentis percutere solent, vt sonitum illum non audiant.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Et tunc oportebat nos percutere et flagellare equos, ponere etiam vestes super alios saginarios, mutare equos saginarios; aliquando nos duos ire in vno equo.
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Quin etiam tunc in organis et tympanis c鎡erisque musicis instrumentis percutere solent, vt sonitum illum non audiant.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Item iuuenes aues occidere, vel accipere: cum froeno equum percutere, Item os cum osse alio frangere.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Et tunc oportebat nos percutere et flagellare equos, ponere etiam vestes super alios saginarios, mutare equos saginarios; aliquando nos duos ire in vno equo.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In the story of the Milkmaid, who kicked down her pail, and with it all her hopes of getting rich, as related in a very ancient collection of apologues, entitled _Dialogus Creaturarum_, printed at Gonda in 1480, is the following passage: 'Et cum sic gloriaretur, et cogitaret cum quantâ gloriâ duceretur ad illum virum super equum dicendo _gio gio_, cepit percutere terram quasi pungeret equum calcaribus.'"
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