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And when in their revenge, the most insatiate Dane Unshipt them on our shores, under their puissant Swane: And swolne with hate and ire, their huge unweeldy force, Came clustring like the Greeks out of the Woodden-horse: And the Norfolcian Townes, the neer’st unto the East, With sacriledge and rape did terriblest infest: Those Danes yet from the shores we with such violence drave, That from our swords, their ships could them but hardly save.
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1756, Samuel Johnson, “The Life of Sir Thomas Browne” in Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, p. xxix, […] he treats with his usual learning on the funeral rites of the antient nations; exhibits their various treatment of the dead; and examines the substances found in his Norfolcian urns.
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1837, Charles Lamb, Letter to Mr. Manning dated 25 December, 1815, in The Letters of Charles Lamb, London: Edward Moxon, Volume 2, p. 18, You have no turkeys; you would not desecrate the festival by offering up a withered Chinese bantam, instead of the savoury grand Norfolcian holocaust, that smokes all around my nostrils at the moment, from a thousand fire-sides.
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A great appearance of these rebellious Norfolcians were got together near Lyn: but the magistrates and people of that town did not side with them, but kept themselves loyal to the king.
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