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Cattes or Squirelles, and by reason of their slendrenes and lightenes, wille mounte vp on braunches and twigges, without daunger or hurte.
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And men kutten the braunches with a scharp flynston or with a scherp bon,75 whan men will go to kutte hem: For who so kutte hem with iren, it wolde destroye his vertue and his nature.
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And the Sarazines clepen the wode Enonch balse; and the fruyt, the whiche is as Quybybes, thei clepen Abebissam; and the lycour, that droppethe fro the braunches, thei clepen Guybalse.
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And there ben also fyge trees, that baren no leves, but fyges upon the smale braunches; and men clepen hem figes of Pharoon.
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Aboute that See growethe moche alom and of alkatram. 94 Betwene Jerico and that see is the lond of Dengadde; and there was wont to growe the bawme; but men make drawe the braunches there of, and beren hem to ben graffed at Babiloyne; and zit men clepen hem vynes of Gaddy.
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And the Sarazines clepen the wode Enonch balse; and the fruyt, the whiche is as Quybybes, thei clepen Abebissam; and the lycour, that droppethe fro the braunches, thei clepen Guybalse.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Aboute that See growethe moche alom and of alkatram. 540 Betwene Jerico and that see is the lond of Dengadde; and there was wont to growe the bawme; but men make drawe the braunches there of, and beren hem to ben graffed at Babiloyne; and zit men clepen hem vynes of Gaddy.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And there ben also fyge trees, that baren no leves, but fyges upon the smale braunches; and men clepen hem figes of Pharoon.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And men kutten the braunches with a scharp flynston or with a scherp bon,521 whan men will go to kutte hem: For who so kutte hem with iren, it wolde destroye his vertue and his nature.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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So likewise was not this Ile of Brittaine without his frute and braunches: amongst whom Patricke Hamelton a skottishman borne, being a yong man of an excellent nature and towardnes, but muche more commendable and praise worthye, for that he was of the kynges bloud and family, being the most ancient and noble stocke and name in all
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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