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Wee will heere rehearse the ninth reproch, which that slanderous hogge hath drawen from the maner of liuing, and specially from the meat and drinke of the Islanders, and that not in one or a few wordes, but in a large inuectiue: namely, that they eate olde and vnsauoury meates, and that, without the vse of bread.
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Wee will heere rehearse the ninth reproch, which that slanderous hogge hath drawen from the maner of liuing, and specially from the meat and drinke of the Islanders, and that not in one or a few wordes, but in a large inuectiue: namely, that they eate olde and vnsauoury meates, and that, without the vse of bread.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And will you play the Hedge-hogge, that being received into the den, drave out his host?
Defence of Poesie 1992
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And dost thou live here as a ghost or hogge, to our great shame and ignominy?
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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They had a head with short haire of one of that nation, that uses to have their hair turned up like the prickles of an headg hogge.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673
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Beside meat, drinke and cloaths, they had for a time a certaine kinde of brasse money with a hogge on the one side, in memory of the abundance of hogges was found at their first landing.
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Wee will heere rehearse the ninth reproch, which that slanderous hogge hath drawen from the maner of liuing, and specially from the meat and drinke of the Islanders, and that not in one or
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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But what maruaile is it, though a varlet, and, that I may giue him his true title, a filthy hogge, that imer
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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And dost thou live here as a ghost or hogge, to our great shame and ignominy?
The Golden Asse 1566
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a varlet, and, that I may giue him his true title, a filthy hogge, that imer (I say) hath bewrayed his nature and disposition in reproches?
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