Note 419 — ACT II.
Reading edition
Ox-pith is mentioned among other provocatives in John Taylor’s The Sculler, ep. 32:—
“Look how yon lecher’s legs are worn away, With haunting of the whore-house every day! He knows more greasy panders, bawds and drabs, And eats more lobsters, artichokes and crabs, Blue roasted eggs, potatoes, muscadine, Oysters, and pith that grows i’ the ox’s chine, With many drugs, compounds, and simples store, Which makes him have a stomach to a whore.”