John Trapp on Proverbs 4:17
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Proverbs4:17
Verſ. 17. For they eat the bread of wickedneſs] As Tartarians feed upon dead carkaſſes of Horſes, Aſſes, Cars, Dogs, yea when they ſtink, and are full of Magots, P[illegible: 1 letter]tcham vally of V[illegible: 1 letter]n. and hold them as dainty as wee do Veniſon. As Spiders feed upon Acomite; as Mithridates, and the Maid in Pliny, upon Spiders, or as the Turkiſh Gally-ſlaves upon Opium; they will eat near an ounce at a time, as if it were bread (the tithe whereof would kill him that is not accuſtomed to it) and can neither ſleep nor live without it.
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