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 Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of 
corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold read more 
 Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of 
corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.
 [Lat., Millia frumenti tua triverit area centum.
  Non tuus hinc capiet venter plus ac meus.] 
 Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a 
porpoise.  
 Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a 
porpoise. 
 You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of 
Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to read more 
 You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of 
Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, 
Sabellus, not to bathe. 
 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the 
fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.  
 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the 
fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. 
 A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb 
put his head through the window and read more 
 A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb 
put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full 
inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gillman's did the 
business for me." 
 Annius has some two hundred tables, and servants for every table. 
Dishes run hither and thither, and plates fly read more 
 Annius has some two hundred tables, and servants for every table. 
Dishes run hither and thither, and plates fly about. Such 
entertainments as these keep to yourselves, ye pompous; I am ill 
pleased with a supper that walks. 
 See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In 
amazement you will exclaim: Where could this read more 
 See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In 
amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow? 
 Ratons and myse and soche smale dere
 That was his mete that vii. yere.  
 Ratons and myse and soche smale dere
 That was his mete that vii. yere. 
 Be it not in thy care. Go,
 I charge thee, invite them all; let in the tide
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 Be it not in thy care. Go,
 I charge thee, invite them all; let in the tide
  Of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide.