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Wednesday 23 November 2005
They are what they eat ... : Thursday's food quotation
Your city wives ... you see by the finenesse and delicacy of their diet, diving into the fat capons, drinking your rich wines, feeding on larkes, sparrowes, potato-pies, and such good unctuous meats, how their wits are refin'd and rarefi'd!
1616 Ben Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour act 2 scene 3