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Linco our Countrie is a great eating Country, argo they eate more in our Countrey then they do in their owne other by a half penny loff a day troy waight
Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590
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Linco our Countrie is a great eating Country, argo they eate more in our Countrey then they do in their owne other by a half penny loff a day troy waight
Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590
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Ynde, a Countrie also of the Easte, and the closyng vp of Asia toward that quartre: is saied to be of suche a maigne syse, that it maie be compared with the thirde parte of the whole earth.
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Parthie, gaue name to this Countrie: Aftre suche time as by train, and stealth thei had gotten it.
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Swine thei so little estieme, that thei neither offre them to any of their goddes ne vouchesauf to kiepe theim in their Countrie.
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Not the Merchauntes, but the indwellers of the Countrie.
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Thei paie rente to the Kyng (for all the whole Countrie is subiecte to their kyng) neither is it lawfull for any of the communes to occupie and possesse any grounde, without paieynge rente.
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The mooste aunciente and eldest father that can be founde in the whole Countrie, is made their Lorde and Kyng.
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The notable Cities of that Countrie, were in tyme past, Thebes, Abydos,
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Aegipte is a Countrie lying in Affrike, or as some hold opinion, borderyng thervpon, so named of Aegiptus, Danaus brother, where afore it was called Aeria.
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