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Ill favoured Asse, that is not worth the meate he eats?
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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"Asse" and a reality that will make headlines probably for a long time.
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"Asse" and a reality that will make headlines probably for a long time.
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"Asse" and a reality that will make headlines probably for a long time.
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"Asse" and a reality that will make headlines probably for a long time.
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I had to re-read The Tale of the Asse-Hatte while I was there and it's still as funny.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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The tenthe, thou shalte not desyre thy neighbours home, his wife, his seruaunte, his maide, his Oxe, nor his Asse, nor any thing that is thy neighbours.
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It is in vaine to tarry any longer heere: but I solemnly protest, Calandrino shall no more make an Asse of me: and were I now as neere him, as not long since I was, I would give him such a remembrance on the heele with this Flint stone, as should sticke by him this moneth, to teach him a lesson for abusing his friends.
The Decameron 2004
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I could have had a proper, handsome yong man; one, that would have maintained mee brave and gallantly: but, beast as I was, to forgoe my good, and cast my selfe away on such a beggar as thou art, and whom none wold have had, but such an Asse as I. Other women live at hearts ease, and in jollity, have their amorous friends and loving
The Decameron 2004
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For (as Philip Beroalde writeth in his commentary vpon Apuleius booke, entituled the Golden Asse) the moste parte of the deuices that we vse in our Christian religion, ware borowed out of the maner of Thegiptians.
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