Momus blamed Vulcan because he did not set a window or lattice in the human breast for discerning secret thoughts.
“Were Momusʹ lattice in our breasts …”
Byron: Werner, iii. 1.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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