...peculiar to you Englishmen alone. What is that, quod the Cardinal ? forsoth my lorde (quod I) your shepe that were wont to be so meke and tame, and so smal eaters, now, as I heare saye, be become so great deuowerers and so wylde, that they eate vp, and swallow downe the...

...peculiar to you Englishmen alone. What is that, quod the Cardinal? forsoth my lorde (quod I) your shepe that were wont to be so meke and tame, and so smal 20 eaters, now, as I heare saye, he become so great devourers of dcvowerers and so wylde, that they...

...and so smal 2O eaters, now, as I heare saye, be become so great English shepe 1*11 *i devourers of devowerers and so wylde, that they eate up, and swallow...They consume, destroye, and devoure whole fieldes, howses, and cities. For looke in what partes of the realme doth growe 25 the fynest and therfore dearest...

...and tame," says Thomas More, " and so small eaters, now, as I heare say, be become so great devourers and so wylde, that they eate up and swallow downe the very men themselves."! In the last decade of the 17th century, the yeomanry, the class of independent peasants,...

...and tame," says Thomas More, " and so small eaters, now, as I heare say, be become so great devourers and so wylde, that they eate up and swallow downe the very men themselves."i In the last decade of the 17th century, the yeomanry, the class of independent peasants,...

...sources of complaint is the increase of sheep. Sir Thomas More, in 1516, complains that "your shepe that were wont to be so meke and tame and so smal eaters, now, as I heare saye, be become so great devowerers and so wylde, that they eate up, and swallow downe the...

...saye, be become so great denurae J devowerers and so wylde, that they eate up, and English 1hejx . swallow downe the very men them selfes. They consume, destroye, and devoure whole ncldes, bowses, and cities. For looke in what partes of the rc.>lmc doth growe 15 the fynest and therfore...

...[quod I], your shepe that were wont to be so meeke and tame and so smal eaters, now, as I heare say, be become so great devowerers, and so wylde that they eate up and swallow downe the very men themselves. They consume, destroye, and devoure whole fieldes, houses and cities. For looke in what...

...no long interval, the 1517 time when Sir Thomas More, in his "Utopia," had spoken* of sheep becoming so "great devowerers and so wylde, that they eate...They consume, destroye and devoure whole fieldes, howses, and cities. For looke," he continues, "in what parts of the realme doth growe the fynest, and...

...peculiar to you Englishmen alone. What is that, quod the Cardinal ? forsoth my lorde (quod I) your shepe that were wont to be so meke and tame, and so smal eaters, now, as I heare saye, be become so great devowerers and so wylde, that they eate up, and swallow downe the...