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Out of one of the which, spronge a flame of fire: and out of the other egge two bright starres.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Emong the Romaines many famous Oratours and other noble men hath spronge vp, who for their worthi - nesse, might haue contended with any nacion: either for their
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In Ireland is no serpent, no frogs, nor venomous addercop; but all the land is so contrary to venemous beasts that if the earth of that land be brought into another land, and spronge on the ground, it slayeth serpents and toads.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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But in as moche as thys euyl is growen and spronge vp of superstityon beyond mesure, yet may it better be sufferde, specially when we consyder on the other syde the euyll conscience and behauyor of them that robb the churches of what so euer iuellys ther may be so founde, thes | | ryches were gyuen in a maner great men, & of pryncys, the whiche they wold haue bestowede vpon a worse vse, that is to say other at the dyce or in the warres.
The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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1.3.16: Ere that the buds were spronge and blowen.
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