“On the Rock of Carmignano there was a tower seventy yards high, and upon it two marble arms, the hands of which were making the figs at Florence.”

Others say these hands were on a finger-post by the roadside.

In the Merry Wives of Windsor , I 3, Pistol says:⁠—

“Convey, the wise it call; Steal! foh; a fico for the phrase!”

“Convey, the wise it call; Steal! foh; a fico for the phrase!”