Figge

Which when they haue gathered out of the floude, and sliced out in maner of lace: they brayde together muche like oure figge fraile, or suche like kinde of mattinge, and make them selues ierkins therof. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Euery house almost had a cisteme or well in a garden on the backe side: in which gardens grew vines (with ripe clusters of grapes) making pleasant shadowes, and Tabacco nowe commonly knowen and vsed in England, wherewith their women there dye their faces reddish, to make them seeme fresh and young: Pepper Indian and common; figge-trees bearing both white and red figges: Peach trees not growing very tall: Orenges, Limons, Quinces, Potato-roots, ❋ Unknown (2003)

This deed is sealed & delivered yet all not worth a figge ❋ Unknown (1998)

"If these leaves be dried in an oven after the bread is drawne out, and the powder thereof be taken in a figge, or raisin, or strewed upon a piece of [110] bread spread with honey, and eaten, it killeth worms in children exceedingly." ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

"Many idle toyes, but the old play _that Adam and Eve acted in bare action under the figge tree draws most of the gentlemen_." ❋ R. J. Broadbent (N/A)

Genesis was rendered, "The eyes of them bothe were opened ... and they sowed figge-tree leaves together, and made themselves breeches." ❋ Robert Naylor (N/A)

A wall is the best fence, and on the north wall, 'against which the sunne reflects, you shall plant the abricot, verdochio, peache, and damaske plumbe; against the east side the white muskadine grape, the pescod plumbe, and the Emperiale plumbe; against the west, the grafted cherries and the olive tree; and against the south side the almond and the figge tree.' ❋ Unknown (1893)

_ Many idle toyes; but the old play that Adam and Eue [xiv: 4] acted in bare action vnder the figge tree drawes most of the ❋ William Kemp (1833)

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God blesse his soule, and a figge then for all worldly condemnation. ❋ Anonymous (1590)

Euery house almost had a cisteme or well in a garden on the backe side: in which gardens grew vines (with ripe clusters of grapes) making pleasant shadowes, and Tabacco nowe commonly knowen and vsed in England, wherewith their women there dye their faces reddish, to make them seeme fresh and young: Pepper Indian and common; figge-trees bearing both white and red figges: Peach trees not growing very tall: Orenges, Limons, Quinces, ❋ Richard Hakluyt (1584)

But in The Geneva Bible, mentioned above, the appropriate passage in Genesis is given as: "And they sowed figge-tree leaves together, and made themselves breeches." ❋ Unknown (1980)

\ And it 17 shal eate thy come, and thy bread: it shal deuoure thy fonncs, and thy daughters: it shal eate thy flocke, & thy heards: it shal eare thy vineyard, and thy figge: & it shal deftroy thy fenced cities, wherein thou haft confidence, with the fword. f But 18 ❋ Unknown (1609)

3143: When Pistoll lyes, do this, and figge-me, like ❋ Unknown (1623)

Johns Iland, among other seedes, what reason the inhabitants there have to call it so it is unto me unknown, unless it be bicause of his fruite, which doth much resemble a figge in shape and bignesse, but so full of sharpe and venemous prickles, that whosoever had one of them in his throte, doubtless less it would send him packing either to heaven or to hell. " ❋ William Curtis (1772)