1664 Cotton s Virgile Book. Care clammed a cat.

1664 Cotton s Virgile Book. Care clammed a cat.

1664, Cotton's Virgile, Book 4.

By biting and scratching dogs and cats come together. Heywood. Quarrelling oft makes friends.

Care clammed a cat. Sir G. C. Lewis's "Herefordshire Glossary." Clammed means starvation; that is, care killed the cat; for want of food the entrails get "clammed."

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