This discussion of a passage about the death of a “William Eps”….
…refers to this scene from Thomas Dekker, who is otherwise obscure to me, which yields us this odd effusion from Robert Browning:
Which in turn points me to this repeated oddment:
Yes, that’s right: my lateral kin in England (our family was settled in Virginia before the Lees, friends) spent the early 19th Century working as phrenologists and “Homeopathic Chemists” whose specialty was–Chocolate.
My wife likes it when I make her hot chocolate.