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_Noli me tangere_, (a cancer) as having already seazed upon the cartilages, and that by the use thereof it was become marvellous well: upon this occasion the nobleman Nicot called the boie to him, and making him to continue the applying of this herbe for eight or ten days, the _Noli me tangere_ became thoroughly kild: nowe they had sent oftetimes unto one of the king's most famous phisitions, the said boie during the time of this worke and operation to make and see the proceeding and working of the said
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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Furstest bebbeh fluttur feelded lyk an buddurflie. myn oaldust boie izz alwsoetu 34 – himz wyl bih 35 neggst weekweekweek … haow didded ai ebber getz soe OWLED?
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There was in a litle straighte entrie (as manye times we see betweene two houses) certaine bordes laied vppon two Ioistes, betwene the one house and the other: vpon which was placed the seate of the priuie, one of which bordes was the same that fill downe with Andreuccio, who now being in the bottome of the Iakes, sorowfull for that sodaine chaunce, cried oute to the boie for helpe.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Andreuccio seing that the boie would not aunswere, began to cry out a loude, but all was in vaine: wherfore suspecting the cause, and beginning somewhat to late to vnderstande the deceipt, he lept ouer a litle wall which closed the place from the sight of the streat.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Nicotiana, and having in charge to do the same until the end of ten days, the said phisition then beholding him, assured him that the _Noli me tangere_ was dead, as indeed the boie never felt anything of it at any time afterward.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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The thirde is a _Chria_ mixt, bothe _verball_ and notyng the facte, as Diogenes seyng a boie wanton & dissolute, did strike his teacher with a staffe, vtteryng these woordes: why dooest thou teache thy scholer so dissolutlie.
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Andreuccio being alone, striped himselfe and laid his hose and doublette vnder his beddes head, and desirous to go to the priuie, he asked the boie where it was, who pointing to the doore in a corner of the chamber, said vnto him: “Goe in there.”
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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The nobleman Sir Nicot having procured it to growe in his garden, where it had put forth and multiplied very greatly, was aduertifed (notified) on a daie by one of his pages, that a yoong boie kinsman of the said page, had laide (for triall sake) the said herbe, pressed, the substance and juice and altogether, upon an ulcer which he had upon his cheeke, neere unto his nose, next neighbor to a
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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Italian _Semele_, and English thigh, a bouncing boie, _Bacchus_-like, almost all named: And being as the manner of this countrie is, after some strength gathered to bring it abroade; I was to entreate three witnesses to the entrie of it into Christendome, over-presumptuous (I grant) to entreate so high a preference, but your Honors so gracious (I hope) to be over-entreated.
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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I my selfe on a time stode nerre hym, when after diner he called out a boie as he was wõt to do, as I trow ten yere olde.
The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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