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The feynte rodde leme slowe creepeth oere the greene,
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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From the rodde Easte he flytted wythe hys trayne, 735
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Whanne from his lyfe-bloode the rodde lemes [57] were fed,
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Swefte as the rodde for-weltrynge [89] levyn-bronde,
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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A rodde reformeþ al her necligence; in her corage no ranco {ur} dooþ abide, who þ {a} t spariþ þe rodde all u {er} tues settiþ a-side.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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A rodde reformeþ al her necligence; in her corage no ranco {ur} dooþ abide, who þ {a} t spariþ þe rodde all u {er} tues settiþ a-side.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Froissart says, "All his dayes he was one of the greatest nygardes that ever was;" and the chronicler adds, "With this rodde lightly all physicians are beaten."
A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866
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The best to my symple dyscrecon whyche is fysshynge: called Anglynge wyth a rodde: and a lyne and an hoke.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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Thornbeck, but a long tayle like a riding rodde whereon the middest is
Captain John Smith Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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Cottonian MS. is "that the meyre, aldermen, and shireves in scarlet, with comoens of London in grene, rodde to the Blak heth to receyve my lord of Bedford."
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