"Draff" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and a long peace; ten times more dishonourable ragged than an old faced ancient: and such have I, to fill up the rooms of them that have bought out their services, that you would think that I had a hundred and fifty tattered Prodigals lately come from swine-keeping, from eating draff and husks. A mad fellow met me on the way, and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets, and press'd the dead bodies. No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march through Coventry with them, that's flat: nay, and the villains march wide betwixt the legs, as if they ...
— King Henry IV, The First Part • William Shakespeare [Hudson edition]
... vndur eu{er}y bagge, good so, a basou{n} cler{e} & bryght; and now is e ypocras made / for to plese many a wight. e draff of e spicery / is good for Sewes in kychyn di[gh]t; and [gh]iff ow cast hit awey, ow dost y ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various |
