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There he incited a crowd at Blackheath with the popular text "When Adam dalf [dug] and Eve span [spun],/Who was then a gentleman?"

Annotations To The Text of _Wat Tyler_ 2007

And he began to run after it till that the star abode in the place where the head of S. John was, and there he dalf and found a pot, and the holy head therein.

The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900

(Chaucer); ‘snow’ ‘snew’; ‘sow’ ‘sew’; ‘delve’ ‘dalf’ and ‘dolve’;

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

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Epitome of the Art of Navigation: Or, A Short, Easy and Methodical Way to Become a Compleat ... 1770