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Pro_27:27 And [thou shalt have] goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and [for] the maintenance for thy maidens.
Ver. 27. And thou shalt have goat’s milk enough.] And this was anciently accounted good cheer indeed. By goat’s milk understand all manner of white meat, as they call it; and see how sparingly they lived in those days, content with that they had at hand, and not running every hand’s while to the butcher’s or draper’s, as now. Or if the men, being harder wrought, had stronger meat sometimes, yet the maidens were well content with a more slender diet. Apelles painted a servant with his hands full of tools - to show that he should be work brittle; with broad shoulders - to bear hard usage; with hind’s feet - to run about his businesses; with ass’s ears, and his mouth shut - to signify that he should be swift to hear, slow to speak; lastly, with a lean belly - that he should be content with coarse fare, spare diet, &c.