Abstain from beans. There be sundry interpretations of this symbol. But Plutarch and Cicero think beans to be forbidden of Pythagoras, because they be windy and do engender impure humours and for that cause provoke bodily lust. Richard Taverner More Quotes by Richard Taverner More Quotes From Richard Taverner Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne. Richard Taverner crooks nature science