Chi mangia di Caviale,
Mangia moschi, merdi, & sale.
Which may be Englished thus,
He that eats Cavialies,
Eats salt, dung, and flies.
For it is only (as was said) the roes of sturgion powdred, pickled, and finely denominated Caviale, to be a bait for such woodcocks and dotrils that account every exotick fansie a real good." This commodity is still common in the North of Europe, and was formerly a considerable article of commerce between England and Russia.
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1 Play. Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven.
i. e. would have drawn tears from them. Milche-hearted, in Hulæt's Abcedarium, 1552, is rendered lemosus; and in Bibliotheca Eliotæ, 1545, we find "lemosi, they that wepe lyghtly." The word is from the Saxon melce, milky.
ACT III.
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