swylbolle

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Noun

swylbolle (plural swylbolles)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of swill-bowl
    • 1532, Robert Whytyngton, “Of maners at table”, in A Lytell Booke of Food Maners for Chyldren, 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, 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.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:swill-bowl.

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