The refreshments are usually very simple-rice and curry for supper, and for little refreshments between whiles there are sugar-cakes and vermicelli, and other little Cates.
"The Soul of a People"
H. Fielding
But he may have a specimen:- "And thus it happened: Death and Cupid met Upon a time at swilling Bacchus' house, Where dainty Cates upon the board were set, And goblets full of wine to drink carouse: Where Love and Death did love the liquor so That out they fall, and to the fray they go.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
Therefore to Bacchus duly will we sing Meet honour with ancestral hymns, and Cates And dishes bear him; and the doomed goat Led by the horn shall at the altar stand, Whose entrails rich on hazel-spits we'll roast.
"The Georgics"
Virgil