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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07

Note 144 — PROPOSAL

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Buttermilk. The quotation from Virgil aptly applies to the food of the Irish peasants, who, in the words of Skelton, bled their cattle and boiled their blood with sorrel to make a food. [T. S.]

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