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Cakes, Capers, and Olives

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IN SHORT

Artemidorus wrote: “CAkes without Chéese are good, those which have both, signifye deceit, and treason by Welshmen: Of Capres and Olives, and all…”

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood

The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription

Of Cakes, Capers, and Olives. · Book 1, encoded section 54 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

CAkes without Chéese are good, those which have both, signifye deceit, and treason by Welshmen: Of Capres and Olives, and all consections to kéep, also of other stamped and compounded things, I will not speak, because they are not good to dreame.

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