Note to As You Like It, 3.2.68: "very uncleanly flux of a cat"


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Act 3, Scene 2, line 68.
very uncleanly flux of a cat: —Touchstone is telling the truth. Civit, the musk of the "civet cat," was (from before Shakespeare's time until about 1998) a common perfume base. Civit, the musk, is the secretion ("flux") of the two perineal glands, located on either side of the anus. Secreted oil is taken from the pouches of caged animals, weekly.