For me buse[[63]] over the bentès brown."
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—Lo, here a fytte; more is to say[[64]]
All of Thomas of Erceldoune.
REGINALD SCOT
DISCOVERY OF WITCHCRAFT (1584)
From "To the Readers."
I should no more prevail herein [i.e. in securing attention] than if a hundred years since I should have entreated your predecessors to believe, that Robin Goodfellow, that great and ancient bull-beggar, had been but a cozening merchant and no devil indeed.... But Robin Goodfellow ceaseth now to be much feared, and popery is sufficiently discovered.