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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… in medicine being used, for example to make LOZENGEs and COMFITs, where its purpose was presumably primarily to mask …
A History of the County of Warwick
… green ginger, pippins, oranges, and 'two coffins of comfits', saw all the plays except Doomsday performed outside …
Old and New London
… to the dead man's house, and partook of spiced bread and comfits, with ale and beer. The next day the mourners had a …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… led him into the saloon; there they partook of wine and comfits, and then embarking again to the roar of guns and the …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… all belief. The sumptuous food and the abundance of comfits which they consume is amazing; nor could the greatest …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… the Governor was received, and entertained him with comfits. Some of the officers, laughing, asked if the …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… to visit the Earl, and to give him refreshments and comfits, and to assure the Earl, with expressions of regard …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… Court by the Count of Ste. Aldegonde. Received presents of comfits and wine. The innkeeper was forbidden to present his …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… as they do here with children, by quieting them with comfits. This term of abuse means much more in English than …