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Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8

Note 465-59 — Scene I.—Before the Cell of Prospero.

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Meat that is infested with maggots which have hatched from eggs laid by flies is said to be fly-blown. These will not lay their eggs in pickled meat. Trinculo says he has been so pickled, that is drunk, that the flies will not blow him.

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