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He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.
He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.
 Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
 [Lat., Nemini fidas, nisi cum quo prius multos read more 
 Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
 [Lat., Nemini fidas, nisi cum quo prius multos modios salis 
absumpseris.] 
 Thou say'st his meat was sauced with thy upbradings;
 Unquiet meals make ill digestions;
  Thereof the raging read more 
 Thou say'st his meat was sauced with thy upbradings;
 Unquiet meals make ill digestions;
  Thereof the raging fire of fever bred. 
 The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause,
 That all the year eats neither partridge not read more 
 The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause,
 That all the year eats neither partridge not quail,
  But sets up his rest and makes up his feast,
   With a crust of brown bread and a pot of good ale. 
 They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet
 Quaff immortality and joy.  
 They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet
 Quaff immortality and joy. 
 Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no 
more and the same plaine and simple: read more 
 Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no 
more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of 
many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But 
sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that. 
 What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with 
Lucullus?  
 What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with 
Lucullus? 
 No, Antony, take the lot:
 But, first or last, your fine Egyptian cookery
  Shall have the fame. read more 
 No, Antony, take the lot:
 But, first or last, your fine Egyptian cookery
  Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Caesar
   Grew faw with feasting there. 
 Man is a carnivorous production,
 And must have meals, at least one meal a day;
  He cannot read more 
 Man is a carnivorous production,
 And must have meals, at least one meal a day;
  He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction,
   But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey;
    Although his anatomical construction
     Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way,
      Your laboring people think beyond all question,
       Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.