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Now burne it or drune it, whitther ye will: ye heir na mair of me.

From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Laing, David

Come ease my mind, wher fancies flames doth burne like Ethna fire, For wanting thee my life is death and doleful cheere, And finding fauor in thy sight, my dayes are happy heere.

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William

The which after a day or two dayes drying in the Sunne, being scrapt vp into small heaps, to saue them labour for carrying them away, they burne into ashes.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Hakluyt, Richard

July 11th, 1656.—Came home by Greenwich Ferry, where I saw Sir John Winter’s new project of charring sea-coale, to burne out the sulphure and render it sweete. 

From The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account by Nicholls, H. G. (Henry George)

By Larix, is a tree hauing leaues like a pine, & good for building, it will neither rot, woormeate, nor burne to coales.

From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Dallington, Robert