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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. 
Brron. A lemon. 
Lone. Stuck with cloves. 
Love’s Lazsour’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 Fonson, “ 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 Fonson, “ 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. 1. 
Tuat 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 (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 79. 
Cock. 
TaminGc OF THE SHREW, il. 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 [a]nointed. with 
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