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What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?
What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?
Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass
of a guinea.
Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass
of a guinea.
To eat at another's table is your ambition's height.
[Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]
To eat at another's table is your ambition's height.
[Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat.
God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat.
Better halfe a loafe than no bread.
Better halfe a loafe than no bread.
I wished your venison better--it was ill killed.
I wished your venison better--it was ill killed.
But that our feasts
In every mess have folly, and the feeders
Digest it with a custom, read more
But that our feasts
In every mess have folly, and the feeders
Digest it with a custom, I should blush
To see you so attired, swoon, I think,
To show myself a glass.
A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.
[Fr., Un diner rechauffe ne valut jamais rien.]
A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.
[Fr., Un diner rechauffe ne valut jamais rien.]
