“Those that be washen wyll not take scabbe after (if they haue sufficient meate); for that is the beste grease that is to a shepe, to grease hym in the mouthe with good meate.”

— Anthony Fitzherbert

Source: The book of the husbandry. (1523/1882), p. 47.

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English judge, scholar and legal author 1470–1538

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“Those that be washen wyll not take scabbe after (if they haue sufficient meate); for that is the beste grease that is to a shepe, to grease hym in the mouthe with good meate.”

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