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For commonly neyther wynter nor somer the fysshe wyl not byte than.
Philocrites: It's Friday: Time for Middle English cooking! 2005
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YE shall now wit that there be twelue maner of impedymentes whiche cause a man to take no fysshe, without other comyn that may casually hap.
Philocrites: It's Friday: Time for Middle English cooking! 2005
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The fourth is if the fysshe be frayde with the syght of a man.
Philocrites: It's Friday: Time for Middle English cooking! 2005
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But when by the reason of tempest the sea ouerfloweth these places aboue his naturall course, and tarieth longer then his wonte, so that they can not haue this benefight of fisshing, and their store is all spent: they gather a kynde of great shelle fysshe, whose shelles they grate open with stones, and eate the fisshe rawe, in taste muche like to an oyster.
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Then do they remoue them, and with a litle beating separate the fysshe fro the bones.
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O howe I longe for those happy dayes with thee, before I ever knew such a thyng as a fysshe existed!
Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923
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Oure house, wych is but small as thou knowest, is all cluttered wyth his slimye tackle, and loe but yesterdaye I loste a customer fromm ye millinery shoppe, shee averring (and I trow ryghtly) that ye shoppe dyd stinke of fysshe.
Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923
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So that (as he saith) the beares beinge thus satisfied with fysshe, are not noysom to men.
Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 Various 1885
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He saythe [saith] also that there is greate plentie of beares in those regions, whiche vse to eate fysshe.
Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 Various 1885
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C. [300] yere and more as with sykenesse they dye nat they take much fysshe for they can goen vnder the water and fe [t] che so the fysshes out of the water. and they werre [war] also on [e] vpon a nother for the olde men brynge the yonge men thereto that they gather a great company thereto of towe
Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 Various 1885
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