Crossword-Solution: RISI 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Risi e piansi d’Amor; ne pero mai Se non in fiamma, o’n onda, o’n vento scrissi Spesso msrce trovai Crudel; sempre in me morto, in altri vissi: Hor da’ piu scuri Abissi al ciel m’aizai, Hor ne pur caddi giuso; Stance al fin qui son chiuso.

The failings of the repast among all classes lean to the side of simplicity, and the abstemious character of the Venetian finds sufficient comment in his familiar invitation to dinner: “_Venga a mangiar quattro risi con me_.” (Come eat four grains of rice with me.) But invitations to dinner have never formed a prime element of hospitality in Venice.

Here more of the national dishes--the pickled veal, smoked sucking pig, stewed beef of various kinds, Risi-Bisi, stewed pork--are to be found than at the restaurants mentioned above.

Risi nescioquem modo e corona, Qui, cum mirifice Vatiniana Meus crimina Calvos explicasset, Admirans ait haec manusque tollens, 'Di magni, salaputium disertum!' 5 LIII.

Shakespeare may have had no more acquaintance with Rice than his knowledge of the imported grain, which seems to have been long ago introduced into England, for in a Nominale of the fifteenth century we have "Hoc risi, indeclinabile, Ryse." And in the "Promptorium Parvulorum," "Ryce, frute.