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Corne they sowe not, neither do eate any bread, mocking the Christians for the same, and disabling our strengths, saying we liue by eating the top of a weede, and drinke
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Pancalier against the Duchesse, which the Duchesse vnderstanding (hauing none other companie but Emilia, and a yong damsell) dispoiled herselfe of her silken garmentes, and did put on mourninge weede, martired with an infinite nomber of sondrie tormentes, seing herselfe abandoned of al worldly succour, made her complaints to God: beseeching him with teares to be protector of her innocencie.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Tare-Cockle, or such like, you shall with weede-hookes, or nippers of woode, cut, or plucke them vp by the rootes; and also if you finde any annoyance of stones, which hinders the growth of your Corne, as generally it happens in this soyle, you shall then cause some Boyes and
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And yet Dorastus, shame not at thy shepheard's weede: The heavenly
A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman
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I could not chuse but apply my self in some sort to the season, and either proove a weede in my encrease without profit, or
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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_The soveraine weede, divine tobacco_, it may be presumed that he was a smoker.
The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897
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Christians for the same, and disabling our strengthe, saying we live by eating the toppe of a weede, and drinke a drinke made of the same,
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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No: I will rob Tellus of her weede to strowe thy greene with Flowers, the yellowes, blewes, the purple
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No: I will rob Tellus of her weede to strowe thy greene with Flowers, the yellowes, blewes, the purple
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They keepe and obserue the rites of matrimonie sauing that euery one weddeth 2 or 3 wiues, which (their husbands being dead) do neuer marrie againe, but for the death of their husbands weare a certaine blacke weede all the daies of their life, besmearing al their faces with cole dust and grease mingled togither as thicke as the backe of a knife, and by that they are knowen to be widdowes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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