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Linc they bring in straing rootes, which is meerly to the vndoing of poor prentizes, for what (e) s a sorry p (ar) snyp to a good hart oth trash trash,: they breed sore eyes and tis enough to infect the
Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590
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Linc they bring in straing rootes, which is meerly to the vndoing of poor prentizes, for what (e) s a sorry p (ar) snyp to a good hart oth trash trash,: they breed sore eyes and tis enough to infect the
Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590
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There is in that contry a kinde of serpentes lurking in the rootes of trees, of haulfe a foote lengthe, whose bitinge is for the moste parte death.
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Of rosted Almondes thei make their breade: and their wine of the rootes of certein herbes.
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There is neuer any raine in Winter, but onely in Sommer, albeit in so little quantitie, that sometimes it scarcely sufficeth to allay the dust, or to moysten the rootes of the grasse.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Suche stronge windes sometime, that it staieth horse and man, and bloweth of the rider: teareth vp trees by the rootes, and doeth muche harme.
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Some of them lyue with herbes and the tender rootes of cannes or Riedes.
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There is another people dwelling in that Ethiope that lyeth aboue Egipte, called Ryzophagi, whiche bestowe muche time in digging vp of the rootes of Riedes growing niere aboute them, and in wasshing and clensing of the same, whiche afterward they bruse betwixt stones till thei become clammie, and so makes wiete cakes of them, muche facioned like a brick a hande broade.
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They fiede them with the rootes of mererushes, and other rootes, rosted in the embries, and with marshe Caubois, and colewortes which partly they seathe, and partly they roste, and parte giue them rawe.
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In theforenoone thei plante and graffe, digge vp settes, stubbe vp rootes, make their owne armour, or fisshe and foule, with the Angle or nette.
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