_:vb7256118 "(archaic) Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties."@en . _:vb7256118 . _:vb7256119 "I had rather live / With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far, / Than feed on cates and have him talk to me / In any summer house in Christendom."@en . _:vb7256120 "1764, Charles Churchill, The Times:"@en . _:vb7256119 "a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, scene 1, lines 155\u2013158:"@en . _:vb7256120 "Hath any rival glutton got the start, / And beat him in his own luxurious art; / Bought cates for which Apicius could not pay, / Or drest old dainties in a newer way?"@en . . _:vb7256121 "I tempted his blood and his flesh, / Hid in roses my mesh, / Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth\u2014 / Still he kept to his filth!"@en . _:vb7256119 . _:vb7256120 . _:vb7256121 "1855, Robert Browning, \u201CInstans Tyrannus\u201D, in Men and Women, lines 19\u201322:"@en . _:vb7256121 . "1" .