Richard Taverner Quotes

• Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.

  Richard Taverner

  Nature, Science, Crooks

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• Abstain from beans. There be sundry interpretations of this symbol. But Plutarch and Cicero think beans to be forbidden of Pythagoras, because they be windy and do engender impure humours and for that cause provoke bodily lust.

  Richard Taverner

  Food, Thinking, Cooking

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