Monday, November 26, 2018
Fall to Your Cheesecakes
Ben Jonson (1572-1637), The Sad Shepherd, Act I, Scene 7:
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Fall to your cheese-cakes, curdles, clawted creame,Foole = "A dish composed of fruit stewed, crushed, and mixed with milk, cream, or custard" (Oxford English Dictionary); flaune = flan, custard; sillabub = "A drink or dish made of milk (frequently as drawn from the cow) or cream, curdled by the admixture of wine, cider, or other acid, and often sweetened and flavoured" (OED).
Your fooles, your flaunes; and of ale a streame
To wash it from your livers: straine ewes milke
Into your cider sillabubs...
