See forswollen on Wiktionary
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"text": "mid-1400s, John Conlee (ed.), Prose Merlin, Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1998, “The Tournament at Logres; King Lot and his Sons; and Morgan and Gyomar,” p. 285, line 315,\n“Ha, boyes!”\" quod the kynge, “thow art fell and forswollen. […] ”"
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