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back again if any vessel be put to receive it, except it be 

 a silver spoon or porringer. This Civet is nothing else but 

 the sweat of the beast under the ribs, fore-legs, neck and tail. 



Topsell, " Four-footed Beasts," p. 586. 



Cloves. 



BIRON. A lemon. 



LONG. Stuck with cloves. 



LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, v. 2, 653. 



HERE'S New Year's gift has an orange and rosemary, 

 but not a Clove to stick in 't. 



Ben Jonson, " Masque of Christmas." 



WINE will be pleasant in taste and in savour and 

 colour ; it will much please thee^ if an orange or a lemon 

 (stuck round about with Cloves) be hanged within the 

 vessel that it touch not the wine. And so the wine will 

 be preserved from foistiness and evil savour. 



Lupton, " A Thousand Notable Things," bk. ii. 40. 



HE walks most commonly with a Clove or pick-tooth in 

 his mouth. Ben Jonson, " Cynthia's Revels," ii. 3. 



IN the goose-market numbers of freshmen stuck here and 

 there with a graduate, like Cloves with great heads in a 

 gammon of bacon. Webster's "Northward Ho!" i. i. 



THAT Westphalian gammon Clove-stuck face. 



Marston's "Scourge of Villainy," Satire vii., line 114. 



SOME be feigned with powder of good Cloves meddled 

 with vinegar and wine with good smell, and be unneath 

 known. But these that be feigned may not be kept passing 

 twenty days. Good Cloves comfort the brain and the virtue 

 of feeling, and help also against indignation and ache of 

 the Stomach. Bartholomew (Birthelet], bk. xvii. 79. 



Cock. 



TAMING OF THE SHREW, ii. i, 227-8. 



COCK'S flesh raw, and laid hot upon the biting of a 

 serpent, doth away the venom. And to the same his brain 

 is good, taken in drink. And if a man be [ajnointed with 



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