(..)my case was deplorable enough, yet I had great cause for thankfulness that I was not driven to any extremities for food, but had rather plenty, even to dainties.
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A table furnished plenteously with bread, / And dainties, remnants of the last regale.
puhekieltä A fancy cookie, pastry, or square served at a social event (usually plural).
Heliogabalus the most dissolute man of the world, amidst his most riotous sensualities, intended, whensoever occasion should force him to it, to have a daintie death.