old cold, white, sweet stuff

Meanings include:

• Death. Local folklore pictures death as a tangible substance that enters the body at the moment of passing away.

• The flesh of soft fruit, especially imported pears.

• Snow that falls during the night, which is thought to be sweet with the taste of night-bred illusions.

• The fluid contained within the human eye.

• Horse semen.

• Fire. As in "O flame that danceth deep wythin thyne eyes/Come shaire thyne old cold, whyte, sweet phlegm/And thou shalt blynk no more" (Trad.)

  _{1. This is as their black faiths demand.}