Flap-dragon (raisin or plum)

Love’s Labor’s Lost, [5.1.38-42]. Costard. “O, they have liv’d long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus. Thou art easier swallow’d than a flap-dragon.”


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