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  • August 4, 2009 at 6:12 am bee caerfull uv perils an swyne!

    This is where - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • August 4, 2009 at 6:55 am adn put yur perils befour swyne..

    This is where - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Noumbles [2] of swyne and boyle hem in broth and wyne. take hym up and dresse hem and do the Leke in the broth. seeþ and do the Noumbles þer to make a Lyour [3] of brode blode and vynegre and do þer to

    The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750

  • Cranys and Herons schulle be euarund [1] wyth Lardons of swyne and rostyd and etyn wyth gyngynyr.

    The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750

  • But now, when men know the difference, and haue the examples, both of the best, and of the worst, surelie, to follow rather the Gothes in Ryming, than the Greekes in trew versifiyng, were euen to eate ackornes with swyne, when we may freely eate wheate bread emonges men.

    The Scholemaster 1570

  • But now, when men know the difference, and haue the examples, both of the best, and of the worst, surelie, to follow rather the _Gothes_ in Ryming, than the Greekes in trew versifiyng, were euen to eate ackornes with swyne, when we may freely eate wheate bread emonges men.

    The Schoolmaster Roger Ascham 1541

  • The chylde heareth that Vlisses felowes were turned into swyne, and other fashions of beastes.

    The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502

  • Circes when she had enchaũted men wyth her wytchcraft, dyd turne them into Lions, beares and swyne, so that yet ther shuld be stil in them the mynde of a man, which thyng Apuleus wrote to haue happened to hym selfe, and Austin also hathe beleued that men haue bene turned into wolues.

    The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502

  • Naye better it is to be a swyne, thẽ an vnlearned and euyll man.

    The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502

  • If ther wer ani witch could wyth euyl craftes, and wold go about to turne thy sonne into a swyne or a wolfe, woldest thou not thynke that ther were no punyshemente to sore for her myscheuouse deede?

    The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502

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