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" ... robbers. The bishops and learned men cursed them continually, but the effect thereof was nothing to them; for they were all accursed, and forsworn, and abandoned. To till the ground was to plough the sea: the earth bare no corn, for the land was all... "
The Early and Middle Ages of England - Page 345
by Charles Henry Pearson - 1861 - 472 pages
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The Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume 1

Richard M. Hogg, Norman Blake - 1992 - 740 pages
...Wherever men tilled, the earth yielded no corn, for the land was completely ruined by such deeds. And they said openly that Christ slept, and his saints. Such things, and more than we can say, we suffered nineteen winters for our sins.') 'And ich wulle uaren to Aualun to uairest alre maidene,...
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A History of England

906 pages
...township fled, thinking them to be robbers. . . .They were all accursed and forsworn and abandoned. To till the ground was to plough the sea: the earth...waste by such deeds; and men said openly that Christ and his saints slept. This it was to have "a soft and a good" man for king in the Middle Ages. 93 DATES...
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