Be not so spiced; 'tis good gold;
And goodness is no gall to th' conscience.'
'Under pretence of spiced holinesse.'—Tract dated 1594, ap. Todd's Illustrations of Gower, p. 380.
'Fool that I was, to offer such a bargain
To a spiced-conscience chapman! but I care not,
What he disdains to taste, others will swallow.'
Massinger, Emperor of the East, i. 1.
'Will you please to put off
Your holy habit, and spiced conscience? one,
I think, infects the other.'