humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

Lyra wrote:
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> Bacon, Lettuce and ...?
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> Thinking about the well-known Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato sandwich - BLT
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> not with a view to eating one, I'm a vegetarian -
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> I wondered if here could be a found a clue to the era.
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> Francis Bacon, Lettice Knollys -
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> and TOM AT O (Oxford University?) -
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> Tom who? -
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Poore *TOM* *MATTO* (a.k.a., Edgar)
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__*MATTO* : crazy, insane, mad, nuts, loco (Italian)
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. King Lear (Quarto 1, 1608) Act 3 Scene 4
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Glost. : What are you there? your names?
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Edg. : Poore *TOM* , that eats the swimming frog, the tode, the
tod pole, the wall-newt, and the water, that in the furie of his
heart, when the foule fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets, swal-
lowes the old ratt, and the ditch dogge, drinkes the greene man-
tle of the standing poole, who is whipt from tithing to tithing,
and stock-punisht and imprisoned, who hath had three sutes to
his backe, sixe shirts to his bodie, horse to ride, and weapon
to weare. But mise and rats, and such small Deere,
Hath beene Toms foode for seuen long yeare ---
Beware my follower, peace snulbug, peace thou fiend.
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Glost. : What hath your Grace no better company?
. [a.k.a., Francis Bacon, Lettice Knollys]
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Art Neuendorffer