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Originally posted by BlackSpiralDncr
"Anyone who sells butter containing stones or other things will be put into our pillory, the said butter will be placed on his head until entirely melted by the sun. Dogs may lick him and people offend him with whatever defamatory epithets they please without offense to God or King. If the sun is not warm enough, the accused will be exposed in the great hall of gaol in front of a rearing fire, where everyone will see him"
King Louis XI of France
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