Citations:swill-bowl

English citations of swylbolle and swill-bowl

Noun: "drunkard"

		1532 1547 1593
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• 1532, Robert Whytyngton, “Of maners at table”, in A Lytell Booke of Food Maners for Chyldren‎^[1], translation of De civilitate morum puerilium by Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus:

  […] drinke nat lyke a swylbolle […]

• 1547, Anne Askew, John Bale, “Iohan Bale to the Christen Readers”, in The lattre examinacyon of Anne Askewe latelye martyred in Smythfelde, by the wycked Synagoge of Antichrist, with the Elucydacyon of Iohan Bale‎^[2], Marpurg, pages 8–9:

  But nothynge lyke to that hath be∣ne shewed sēs in the Englysh* churche by the spirytuall tyran̄t of Rome & hys my¦tred termagaūtes / at the prouocacyō of ther oyled swylbolles & blynd Balaamy¦tes. For they most cruellye brēt those inno¦cētes / whych ded but only reade the testa¦mēt of God in their mother tunge / & do not yet repent them of that myschefe but contynewe therin.

• 1547, John Bale, The Second Examination of Anne Askewe; republished in Christmas, Henry, editor, Select Works of John Bale‎^[3], The Parker Society edition, Cambridge: University Press, 1849, Britannish, page 193:

  But nothing like to that hath been shewed since in the English church by the spiritual tyrant of Rome and his mitred termagants, at the provocation of their oiled swill-bowls and blind Balaamites. For they most cruelly brent those innocents which did but only read the testament of God in their mother-tongue; and do not yet repent them of that mischief, but continue therein.

• 1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierce's Supererogation; or, A New Praise of the Old Ass‎^[4], published 1815, page 141:

  Wantonness was never such a swill-bowl of ribaldry; nor Idleness ever such a carouser of knavery.