("Buy my cheese from Champagne,
And my cheese from Brie!")
Eustache Deschamps went so far as to say that cheese was the only good
thing which could possibly come from Brie.
The "Menagier de Paris" praises several kinds of cheeses, the names of
which it would now be difficult to trace, owing to their frequent changes
during four hundred years; but, according to the Gallic author of this
collection, a cheese to be presentable at table, was required to possess
certain qualities (in proverbial Latin, "Non Argus, nee Helena, nee Maria
Magdalena," &c.), thus expressed in French rhyme:--
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