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Gossip, this is nothing else but Wormes in the bellie of the childe, which ascending to the heart, must needs kill the child, without all question to the contrary.
The Decameron 2004
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_Filanders_ or _Wormes_: To prevent them, seeing your Hawk low and poor, give her once a month a Clove of _Garlick_.
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Anglings, both for Wormes and Flies; so there must bee a great care of that.
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Vine be troubled with Wormes, Snailes, Ants, Earewigges, or such like, you shall morning and euening sprinckle it ouer with cowes-pisse and vinegar mixt together & it will helpe it: & thus much for ordering the
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Garden-Wormes, the quantity of a pinte, or a quarte, chop them in pieces, and throw them where you intend to have your pleasure; with feeding often, there is no doubt of their comming; they will come as
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And after you think by this time he is throughly purged of his _Corne_, _Wormes_, _Gravel_, and other course Feeding, take him in the Morning out of the _Pen_, and let him
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For stomach Wormes, annoynt the stomach with Oyle of _Wormwood, _ and the belly with Oyle of sweet _Almonds_, for belly Wormes take all of _Wormwood_, Oyle of _Savine_, and the Powder of _Aloe Cicatrina_, finely beaten, annoynt the belly therewith, morning and evening.
A Book of Fruits and Flowers Anonymous
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Cicatrine_, about the quantity of a Bean, wrapt up in her Meat; and this avoids Grease, and kills Wormes too.
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_Brown-paper_, divide a sheet into Eight parts, and make them into the fashion of _Sugar-Loaves_; _Lime_ them a little in the inside, and put some _Corn_ in them (if in _Ploughing_ time, _Wormes_, and _Maggots_) lay _Three_ or _Four Score_ up and down the Land, under (if you can) some Clod, early, before feeding time: Be at some distance, and behold the ensuing Sport.
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Mallerie continued to say so for months, until before a crowd of gentlemen at the "ordinary" of one Wormes, his taunts were so unbearable that Hall crept up behind him and tried to stab him in the back.
English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard
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