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P.1229, 1. 54. 35. How the devil luxury, with his fat rump, and potatoe finger, tickles these together!] Potatoes were anciently regarded as provocatives. STEEVENS,

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which accordingly is called luxury, in all our old English writers. In the Summae Theologiae Compendium of Thomas Aquinas, P. 2. II. Quaest. CLIV. is de Luxuriae Partibus, which the author distributes under the heads of Simplex Fornicatio, Adulterium, Incestus, Stuprum, Rap tus &c. and Chaucer, in his Parson's Tale, descanting on the seven deadly sins, treats of this under the title De Luxuria. Hence, in King Lear, our author uses the word in thi this peculiar

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This root, which

our author's time but newly inported was Gerica, was considered as a rare exotic, from and esteemed a very strong provocative. As the plant is so common now site may entertain the reader to see how it is described by Gerard in his Herbal,1517 į po 780: voy

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"This plant, which is called of some Skyrrits Peru, is generally of us called Potatus,

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tatoes. There is not any that hath written of this plant; therefore, refer the description

thereof unto those that shall hereafter have further

knowledge of the same. Yet I have had in my garden divers roots (that I bought at the Exchange in London) where they flourished until winter, at which time they perished and rotted. They are used to be eaten roasted in the ashes. Some, when they be so roasted, infuse thein and sop them in wine; and others, to give them the greater grace in eating, do boil them with prunes. Howsoever they be dressed, they comfort, nonrish, and strengthen the bodie, procure bodily lust, and that with great greediness:

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Drayton, in the 20th song of his Polyolbion, introduces the same idea concerning the skirret: "The skirret, which, some say, in sallets stirs the blood,

Shakspeare alludes to this quality of potatoes in The Merry Wives of Windsor: “Let the sky rain potatoes, hail kissing comfils, and snow eringoes; let a tempest of provocation come."

Ben Jonson mentions potatoes pies' in' Every Man out of his Humour, among other good unctuous meats. So, T. Heywood, in The English Traveller, 1633:

"Caviare, sturgeon, anchovies, pickled oys-
ters; yes

"And a potatoe pier besides all these,
"What thinkest rare and costly. "

Again, in The Dumb Knight, 1633: “—— truly I think a marrow bone pye, candied eringoes, preserved dates, or marmalade of cantharides, were much better harbingers cock-sparrows. stew'd, dove's brains, or swains' pizzles, are very provocatives ROASTED FOTATOES, or boiled sker

rets, are your only lofty dishes." Again, in Decker's Honest Whore, 1635: "If she he a woman, marrow-bones and potatoe-pies keep me, &c. Again, in A Chaste Maid of Cheap side, by Middleton, 1620:

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Again, in Chapman's May-Day, 1611: banquet of oyster-pies, skerret-roots, potatoes, eringoes, and divers other whetstones of venery. Again, in Decker's If this be not a good Playi the Devil is in it, 1612:

"Potatoes eke, if

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"To corroborate the back."

Again, in Jack Drum's Entertainment, 1601: 166 by Gor, an me had known dis, met wooder?. have eat som potatos, or ringoe." Again, in Sir W. D'Avenant's Love and Honour, 1649:

"You shall find me a kind of sparrow,

widow ;

A barley-corn goes as far as a potatoe” ova Again, in The Ghost, 1640:

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"Then, the fine broths I daily had sent to

me,

"Potatoe pasties, lusty marrow - pies,' &c. Again, in Histriomastix, or the Player whipt, 1610:

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Give your play-gull a stool, and my lady: 1 her fool,

"And her usher potatoes and marrow.” Nay, so notorious were the virtues of this root that W. W. the old translator of the Menoechmi

of Plautus, 1595, has introduced them into that comedy. When Menoechmus goes to the house of his mistress Erotium to bespeak a dinner, he adds, "Harke ye, some oysters, a mary-bone pie. or two, some artichockes, and potato-roots, let our other dishes be as you please."

Again, in Greene's Disputation between a

Heecher and a Shee Coneycatcher,

1592:

you, u, how many badde proffittes againe growes from whoores. Bridewell woulde have verie fewe tenants,*the* { Hospitall wonde wante patiëntès y and the surgians much woorkega the apothecaries would have surphaling water sud potato-roots lye deade on their handes," Again, in Cynthia's Revels, by Ben Jonson; 'tis your only dish, above all your potatoes or oyster pies in the world. Again, in The Elder Brother, by Beaumont and Fletcher: ****

A banquet well, potatoes and eringoes, And as I take it, cantharides Excellent, Again, in The Loyal Subject, by the same aum thors:

"Will your Lordship please to taste fine potato?

Twill advance your wither'd state,

"Fill your honour full of noble itches, Again in The Martial Maid, by Beaumont and Fletcher: "Will your Ladyship have a potatoepie? 'tis a good stirring dish for an old lady after a long lent."*** Again, in The Sea Voyage, by`.

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Oh, for some eringoes,

“Potatoes, or cantharides!"

Again:

"See provoking dishes, candied eringoes

“And potatoes.”

Again,

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