cod quotes

   And this isgood old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots And the Cabots talk only to God.

-John Collins Bossidy
  Toast delivered at Holy Cross alumni dinner, Boston.

O wombe! O bely! O stynkyng cod Fulfilled of dong and of corrupcioun!

- Geoffrey Chaucer
  Canterbury  Tales,'The Pardoner's Tale', l.534^5.