banquet what we now call a dessert,—a slight refection, consisting of cakes, sweetmeats, and
fruit, and generally served in a room to which the guests removed after dinner:
“My banquet is to close our stomachs up, After our great good cheer,”
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, v. 2.
9
(A passage overlooked by Nares when he said,
“Banquet is often used by
Shakespeare, and there seems always to signify a feast, as it does now.”
Gloss.
);
“ Servants, with a banquet,”
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, ii. 7.
1.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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