Tasting
The bodies life with meates and aire is fed, Therefore the soule doth vse the tasting power, In vaines which through the tong & pallat spred.
Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons Descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable.
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- Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons Descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable.
- Author
- Albott, Robert, fl. 1600.
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- Imprinted at London :: For N. L[ing,] C. B[urby] and T. H[ayes],
- 1600.
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- English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
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"Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons Descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16884.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.
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Page 264
Distinguish euery rellish sweet and sower. This is the bodies nurse: but since mans wit Found the Art of cookery to delight his sence, More bodies are consumde and kild with it, Then with the sword, famine, or pestilence. I. Dauies.
—That fourth band which cruell battery bent Against the fourth bulwarke, that is the taste: Was as the rest, a grisly rabblement, Some mouth like greedy Estriges, some fac'st Like loathly Toades, some fashioned in the waste Like swine, for so deseru'd his luxurie, Surfet, misdiet, and vnthriftie warke, Vaine feasts, and idle superfluitie, All those this sences fort assaile incessantly. Ed. Sp.