49 EGGS IN LITERATURE. 
“ Lest that ill egg bring forth a cockatrice 
To poison all with heresy and vice.” 
THos. DupLEy. 1650. 
“So rides he mounted on the market day 
Upon a straw-stuffed pannell all the way — 
With a maund charged with household mer- 
chandize 
With eggs or white meat from both dayries.” 
BisHop HALL. 
“To helpe it called for a puritan poacht, 
That used to turn up the eggs of his eyes.” 
BEN JONSON. 
“Nay, soft and faire, I have eggs on the spit ; 
I cannot go yet, sir.” 
Ben Jonson.— Hvery Man in His Humour. 
i. é., the eggs need constant turning. 
SHAKESPEARE. 
“Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg 
is full of meat; and yet thy head hath been 
beaten as addle as an egg, for quarrelling.” 
Romeo and Juliet, Act III. Se. 1. 
