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It was only a few years later (1524), that Robert Whittinton, in one of his grammatical tracts (the “Vulgaria”), includes among his examples: — “Befe and motton is so dere, that a peny worth of meet wyll scant suffyse a boy at a meale.”
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Great lords haue cottages or granges towards the South, from whence their tenants bring them Millet and meale against winter.
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They be mighty huge trees, and when they are cut with an axe by the ground, there issueth out of the stocke a certain licour like vnto gumme, which they take and put into bags made of leaues, laying them for 15 daies together abroad in the sun, and at the end of those 15 dayes, when the said licour is throughly parched, it becommeth meale.
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Of certaine trees yeelding meale, hony, and poyson.
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Of certaine trees yeelding meale, hony, and poyson.
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Grind-stones are to bee made, they knede the sand as they use to doe meale, and so make them of what bignesse they please.
The Decameron 2004
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For their meate they vse, moche a kynde of pancake, made of rye meale.
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Of certaine trees yeelding meale, hony, and poyson.
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Ambrose Calepine, Nicholas Perotte, in his cornu copiæ, and many other famous writers eche one for their parte, as it were skatered, and by piece meale, set furthe to posteritie.
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Againe, at the third point he crieth, Boult this meale.
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