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Ireland, described in the Italian romance called Guerino Meschino. Here gourmands are tantalised with delicious banquets which elude their grasp, and are at the same time troubled with colic. (See Tantalus.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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