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You might be offered oatcakes as well as bread (especially in the north). If these do not tempt you, consider eating "horse-bread." This is made from a sort of flour of ground peas, bran, and beans–if contemporaries look at you strangely, it is because it is not meant for human consumption.
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― The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
― The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
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Hast thou
seen a saucy wench hereabouts?”
“I hath seen no saucy wench,” said
Colin, using the term with difficulty,
for the white frightened face of his
Lady of the Greenwood haunted him.
“Nor art thou free to trespass on my
master’s land with so hare-brained
an excuse. Get thee gone without delay.
”
― In God is My Hope
― In God is My Hope
