I can' t quite match 1697, but this is from East of Eden:
"And Tom had cut Mollie's tongue with his pocket-knife, and dies in his heart when he realized his courage."

There is another more graphic description of the incident in the book, but I can' find it quite at this moment.

Eithne Murray

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