Porto.
Zamora.
843
PAET VIL
CLASSICAL BILL OF FAEE QUOTATIONS.
APPROPRIATE EXTRACTS FOR THE MENU COMPILER.
" God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat." —
Tusser.
" Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you what you
are." — Spanish Proverb.
" Cheerful looks make every dish a feast." — Massinger.
"There may be the same vitiated taste in the choice of
friends as of food."— Bacon.
" Bread is the staff of life." —Swift, Tale of a Tub.
" You are welcome, worthy sir, as I have words to bid you,
and you shall find it so in all that I can do." — Shahespeare.
" Ladies, a general welcome." — Henry VII L i. 4.
" Sit down and feed, welcome to our table."
As You Like It, ii. 8.
•' Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both."
3Iacbeth iii. 4.
" Let's see your list of the larder, then, I ask it as a favour.
I always match my appetite to my bill of fare."
SJie Stoops to Conquer.
" The landlord told him that his palate should be suited, for
whatever the air, earth, and sea produced, of birds, beasts, or
fish, the hotel was abundantly supplied with." — Bon Quixote.
" Egad, we have a trilling foolish banquet toward."
Borneo and Juliet, i. 5.
" To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast,
fits a dull fighter but a keen guest." — Heury IV. iv. 2.
" Come, let's to dinner." — Henry IV. iv. 2.
" If you have a loitering servant, send him of thy errand just
before his dinner." — Fuller.
" Coquetry whets the appetite ;
Flirtation depraves it." — Ik JMarvel.
" And there, merrily seated in a ring.
Partook a choice repast." — Massinger,
" A table richly spread, in regal modes,
With dishes piled, and meats of noblest sort
And savour." — Milton.
" Let him have food and wine ; he has ridden hard,
And lacks refreshment." — Sir Henry Taylor.
" As he sat at his meal the musick play'd sweet,
With the choicest of singing his joys to compleat."
Percy Beliques'.
844 PRACTICAL GASTEONOMY
*' ' Prepare, then, a feast, and none of the least,
For we will be merry,' quoth he." — Robin Hood,
" Man, Nature's guest by invitation sweet,
Eeceives from her both appetite and treat ;
But, if he play the glutton, and exceed.
His benefactress blushes at the deed." — Cowper.
*' What needes of dainty dishes to devise,
Of comely service or courtly trayne."
HORS-D'CEUVRES.
" He was a bold man that first ate an oyster."
Dean Sivift, Conversation.
"Those oysters, too, that look so plump." — Tom Hood.
" The treasure of an oyster." — Antony and Cleopatra, i. 5.
"Item — anchovies and sack." — Henry IV. ii. 4.
" They call for eggs and butter." — Heni'y IV. ii. 1.
" Dishes alike delightful and appetising." — Leigh Hunt.
SOUP.
"A hasty plate of soup." — Winfield Scott.
"Soup of the evening, beautiful soup." — Alice in Wonderland.
" Of all the things I ever swallow,
Good, well-dressed turtle beats them hollow;
It almost makes me wish, I vow,
To have two stomachs, like a cow." — Hood.
" Spoon meat — bespeak a long spoon." — Comedy of Errors.
" That's meat and drink to me." — Merry Wives of Windsor,
" Gravy ! gravy ! gravy ! " — 2 Henry IV.
" Twenty turtles." — Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 1.
" The imperious seas breed monsters ; for the dish,"
Cymheline, iv. 2.
FISH.
" To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail."
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Porto.
Zamora.
843
PAET VIL
CLASSICAL BILL OF FAEE QUOTATIONS.
APPROPRIATE EXTRACTS FOR THE MENU COMPILER.
" God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat." —
Tusser.
" Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you what you
are." — Spanish Proverb.
" Cheerful looks make every dish a feast." — Massinger.
"There may be the same vitiated taste in the choice of
friends as of food."— Bacon.
" Bread is the staff of life." —Swift, Tale of a Tub.
" You are welcome, worthy sir, as I have words to bid you,
and you shall find it so in all that I can do." — Shahespeare.
" Ladies, a general welcome." — Henry VII L i. 4.
" Sit down and feed, welcome to our table."
As You Like It, ii. 8.
•' Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both."
3Iacbeth iii. 4.
" Let's see your list of the larder, then, I ask it as a favour.
I always match my appetite to my bill of fare."
SJie Stoops to Conquer.
" The landlord told him that his palate should be suited, for
whatever the air, earth, and sea produced, of birds, beasts, or
fish, the hotel was abundantly supplied with." — Bon Quixote.
" Egad, we have a trilling foolish banquet toward."
Borneo and Juliet, i. 5.
" To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast,
fits a dull fighter but a keen guest." — Heury IV. iv. 2.
" Come, let's to dinner." — Henry IV. iv. 2.
" If you have a loitering servant, send him of thy errand just
before his dinner." — Fuller.
" Coquetry whets the appetite ;
Flirtation depraves it." — Ik JMarvel.
" And there, merrily seated in a ring.
Partook a choice repast." — Massinger,
" A table richly spread, in regal modes,
With dishes piled, and meats of noblest sort
And savour." — Milton.
" Let him have food and wine ; he has ridden hard,
And lacks refreshment." — Sir Henry Taylor.
" As he sat at his meal the musick play'd sweet,
With the choicest of singing his joys to compleat."
Percy Beliques'.
844 PRACTICAL GASTEONOMY
*' ' Prepare, then, a feast, and none of the least,
For we will be merry,' quoth he." — Robin Hood,
" Man, Nature's guest by invitation sweet,
Eeceives from her both appetite and treat ;
But, if he play the glutton, and exceed.
His benefactress blushes at the deed." — Cowper.
*' What needes of dainty dishes to devise,
Of comely service or courtly trayne."
HORS-D'CEUVRES.
" He was a bold man that first ate an oyster."
Dean Sivift, Conversation.
"Those oysters, too, that look so plump." — Tom Hood.
" The treasure of an oyster." — Antony and Cleopatra, i. 5.
"Item — anchovies and sack." — Henry IV. ii. 4.
" They call for eggs and butter." — Heni'y IV. ii. 1.
" Dishes alike delightful and appetising." — Leigh Hunt.
SOUP.
"A hasty plate of soup." — Winfield Scott.
"Soup of the evening, beautiful soup." — Alice in Wonderland.
" Of all the things I ever swallow,
Good, well-dressed turtle beats them hollow;
It almost makes me wish, I vow,
To have two stomachs, like a cow." — Hood.
" Spoon meat — bespeak a long spoon." — Comedy of Errors.
" That's meat and drink to me." — Merry Wives of Windsor,
" Gravy ! gravy ! gravy ! " — 2 Henry IV.
" Twenty turtles." — Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 1.
" The imperious seas breed monsters ; for the dish,"
Cymheline, iv. 2.
FISH.
" To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail."