Taylor ‘Sculler’ in Works (1869) III 24: Lieutenant Puffe from Cleaueland is return’d, / Where entering of a breach was sorely burn’d: / And from reuenge hee’l neuer be perswaded, / Till the low Countries he hath quite inuaded. Marcus his Wifes great modesty doth hate And swears hee loues the impudence of Kate Well Marcus, if such Coolers thou dost loth, Thy Kate, perhaps, will coole, and burne thee both. Middleton Epigrams 15: Into a brothell house Conitus turned, / But he came home after his pricke was burned.ĭavies of Hereford Scourge of Folly 15: Against Marcus his fire-worke. Come not near her.ĭekker & Webster Northward Hoe IV i: Cockatrice : You, mistris Salamanders, that feare no burning. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors IV iii: They appear to men as angels of light light is an effect of fire and fire will burn ergo, light wenches will burn. Gascoigne (trans.) Supposes IV ii: A pox eat you, marry thou wilt be burnt. Eschue the cause of this infirmitie, and filthy, rotten, burning of harlottes. 47: Many men, women and children, now a daies, be greuiously bred with a shamefull disease, called the Frenche Pockes. Fish Supplicacyon for the Beggers 6: that catche the pokkes of one woman, and here theym to an other that be brent wyth one woman, and here it to an other, that catch the lepry of one woman, and here it to an other. In Beckett Bankside ordinance Philosophical Transactions V/382 in Williams (1994) I 175: No Stew-holder keep noo Woman withyn his Hous that hath any Sycknesse of brenning.

In Beckett Philosophical Transactions V/384 in Williams I (1994) 175: A receipt for Brenning of the Pyntyl, yat Men clepe ye Apegalle.

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