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The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
 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. 
 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that 
one teach you again which read more 
 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that 
one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles 
of God: and are become such as have need of milk, and not of 
strong meat.
 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of 
righteousness: for he is a babe.
  But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even 
those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern 
both good and evil. 
 I will make an end of my dinner--there's pippins and seese to 
come.  
 I will make an end of my dinner--there's pippins and seese to 
come. 
 What baron or squire
 Or knight of the shire
  Lives half so well as a holy friar.  
 What baron or squire
 Or knight of the shire
  Lives half so well as a holy friar. 
 A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.
 [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]  
 A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.
 [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.] 
 And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but 
an handful of meal read more 
 And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but 
an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: 
and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and 
dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. 
God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat.
God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat.
 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.