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steps from the pavement under the hooves of approaching carriage horses

with a yoke balanced across her shoulders and a pail of milk by her feet

Well dressed figures are leaving the church on foot and in carriages

and was formerly believed to have been occasioned by the sin of gluttony

Middle Temple Macaroni mb-height 3667 'Hot Bak'd Wardens Hot''Middle Temple Macaroni', c1772; showing a young man ( possibly an actor), with sword and in macaroni garb, standing in profile. The quotation underneath, In short I am a West Indian was based on a play by Richard Cumberland. A macaroni was an eighteenth century dandy who affected continental fashions.