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luscious (adj.)

  The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Othello. Act i. Sc. 3.

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,

Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,

Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,

With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.