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  • Do they not forth wyth exercise their fawnes to swyftnes, and teach thẽ howe to runne? they brynge them to hye stiepe doune places, & shewe them how to leap, because by these meanes they be sure agaynste the traines of the hunters.

    The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502

  • 762: Looke when he fawnes, he bites; and when he bites,

    Richard III (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

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