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  • _Artaxerxes_, al be yt hee bee spurgalde, beeing so much gallop, bee placed in thee dedicatory epistle receauing a cuppe of water of a swayne, or elles al is not wurth a beane.

    A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

  • What ho, thou iollye shepheards swayne, come vp the hill to me:

    Shepheardes Calendar 1579

  • Prickett writes: “Being thus in the ice on Saturday, the one and twentieth of June, at night, Wilson the boat swayne, and Henry Greene, came to mee lying (in my cabbin) lame, and told mee that they and the rest of their associates would shift the company and turne the Master and all the sicke men into the shallop, and let them shift for themselves.

    Henry Hudson Janvier, Thomas A 1909

  • Prickett writes: "Being thus in the ice on Saturday, the one and twentieth of June, at night, Wilson the boat swayne, and Henry

    Henry Hudson A Brief Statement of His Aims and His Achievements 1881

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