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 However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still 
greater than the dish.  
 However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still 
greater than the dish. 
 I fear it is too choleric a meat.
 How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled?  
 I fear it is too choleric a meat.
 How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled? 
 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured 
against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
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 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured 
against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had 
died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by 
the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye 
have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole 
assembly with hunger. 
 "Here, dearest Eve," he exclaims, "here is food." "Well," 
answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within read more 
 "Here, dearest Eve," he exclaims, "here is food." "Well," 
answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within her, 
"we have been so busy to-day that a picked-up dinner must serve." 
 That famish'd people must be slowly nurst,
 And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.  
 That famish'd people must be slowly nurst,
 And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst. 
Acorns were good till bread was found.
Acorns were good till bread was found.
And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.
And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.
 The master of art or giver of wit,
 Their belly.  
 The master of art or giver of wit,
 Their belly. 
 I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel,
 My morning incense. and my evening meal,
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 I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel,
 My morning incense. and my evening meal,
  The sweets of Hasty-Pudding.