Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

The sour crab hath the shew of an apple as well as the sweet pippin, the black raven the shape of a bird, as well as the white swan, the lewd wight, the name of a woman as well as the honest matron.

John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)

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I showed him a corn that I had cut off with my own hand, from a maid of honour’s toe; it was about the bigness of Kentish pippin, and grown so hard, that when I returned England, I got it hollowed into a cup, and set in silver.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)