“What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice,
Of Attic taste?”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
To Mr. Lawrence
“Still to be neat, still to be drest,
As you were going to a feast.”
Epicene, or The Silent Woman (1609), Act I, scene i; a translation from Bonnefonius
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