“Inside the Mind of a Vedantic Master: Exploring M. Hiriyanna’s Secret Diary, Chaff and Draff”, The Dharma Dispatch, July 04, 2026

“Mistress Page in Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor, utters an ancient English proverb: “Still swine eat all the draugh.”

Draugh is the archaic spelling of draff, a word which is almost extinct in the country of its origin. 

The earliest mention of this proverb is found in The Proverbs of John Heywood, who “made coarse rhymes fashionable” as early as 1546, eighteen years before Shakespeare’s birth……..”

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