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english literature we find the fruit called a coyne, as in the romaunt of the rose and the old english vocabularies of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, this name being adapted from the french coin, whence middle english coin, quin, the plural quins, becoming corrupted to the singular quince. the quinces
medicinal virtues of the quince, says that the fruit warded off the influence of the evil eye, and other legends connect it with ancient greek mythology, as exemplified by statues on which the fruit is represented, as well as by representations in the wall-paintings and mosaics of pompeii, where quinces...
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