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Ouer the middle bending of the garland, and vnder the proiecture of the lyppe of the vessell, there was fixed and placed the head of an olde man, with his beard and haire of his head transformed into nettle leaues, and out of whose mouth gushed out the water of the fountayne by art continually into the hollownes of the broad vessell vnder this.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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But there mayster parson begone to frowne, & byte hys lyppe, with hys holowe eyes lyke to * Gorgone [* A mõster that hathe snakes for heares apon her hedde.] ye monstre to luke apõ vs. I doo not dowbte he wold haue
The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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Bowe thy right fore fyngere and up it on thy neder lyppe.
The Old Foodie 2009
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