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a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 29 (MED) On is þe defles tuihting..þat oðer is mannes licunge..þe egginge and þe likinge him bringeð in to helle pine.

a1250 Ureisun ure Louerde (Lamb.) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 189 Þi deaþ adeadi in me flehces licunge.

c1330 (?c1300) Speculum Guy (Auch.) (1898) l. 269 (MED) Hij..Þat wolden her god forsake Þurw sinne of fleshes liking.

c1390 (?c1350) St. Augustine l. 1768 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 92 (MED) Lvst also and dilytinge Of fleschlich likyng or tastinge He forsok.

c1450 in F. J. Furnivall Hymns to Virgin & Christ (1867) 92 For likinge blindiþ many oon.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xiii. §1. 47 All the lust and lykynge of thaire flesch and this warld.

?1531 R. Whitford tr. Folowing of Christe iii. xxxix. f. cvi^v They that folowe the lorde..by perfyte mortifieng of their flesshely lustes, be knowen to be very wyse, for they be led fro vanyte to trouth, and fro flesshely lykynge to spirituall clennes.

1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 269 A man shall knowe when they fall to lyking and laying, by this.

1661 R. Hodden One Good Way of God 31 The outward eye of fleshly love and worldly liking was opened in him.

a1711 T. Ken Edmund iv, in Wks. (1721) II. 96 To Sensuality his Flesh propends, Propension up to Liking straight ascends.

1835 J. MacDonald Diary 23 June in W. K. Tweedie Life J. Macdonald (1849) 249 My fleshly likings in this place have been wonderfully taken off.

1908 M. Gaster tr. Secretum Secretorum in Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. Jan. 156 Eat only cold food..and do not indulge in fleshly liking.

1962 W. H. Auden & E. Mayer tr. J. W. von Goethe Ital. Journey (1970) ii. 203 She made great play with the expressions ‘a liking for flesh’ and ‘a fleshly liking’.