. Kempis._
"It's the rules of the house, sir; you must take
soup."--_Mark L. Demotte._
FISH
"'Tis sweet and fresh--'twas caught this night."--_Beaumont
& Fletcher._
"Now bring along your liars, and let the biggest one take
the cake."--_Six Dinners._
TERRAPIN
"A dish that I do love to feed upon."--_Shakespeare._
LOBSTERS
"On eight long feet these wondrous warriors tread
And either end alike supplies the head."
--_Homer._
SHRIMPS
"Old Ocean, envious of my ladies crimps,
Tried hard to copy them, and--presto! Shrimps!"
--_Six Dinners._
FOR ENTRIES OF VARIOUS KINDS
"Take every creature in of every kind."--_Pope._
"When I have tasted of this sacred dish, then shall my bones
rest in my father's tomb in peace."--_Beaumont & Fletcher._
"Not to know me argues yourselves unknown."--_Milton._
FOR A SPECIAL OR NOVEL DISH
"It's better to be out of the world than out of the
fashion."--_Swift._
FROG'S LEGS
"We sport in water or we dance on land."--_Homer._
"Though this be fun for you,
'Tis death to us."--_Fables._
LAMB
"Pray you, who does the wolf love?"--_Shakespeare._
"Ah, gentle lamb! 'Tis better that you be roasted and served
to sympathizing human folk than be devoured ungracefully by
ravenous beasts."--_Six Dinners._
ROAST PIG
"See him in the dish, his second cradle!"--_Charles Lamb._
"He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the
judicious epicure, and for such a tomb might be content to
die."--_Charles Lamb._
CHICKENS
"We'll not eat crow, but him that crow'd."--_Anon._
TURKEY
"Nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving of it."--_Macbeth._
GOOSE
"What's sauce for the goose
Is sauce for the gander."--_Old Rhymes._
SUCCOTASH
"These be the great twin brethren."--_Macauley._
MACARONI
"Some Jay of Italy."--_Cymbeline._
ONIONS
"So near will I be that your best friends shall wish I had
been further."--_Julius Caesar._
GREEN PEAS
"How green you are and fresh."--_King John._
GAME
"Here's a pigeon so finely roasted it cries, 'Come eat
me.'"--_Swift._
SALAD
"I warrant there is vinegar and pepper in't."--_Twelfth
Night._
DESSERT
"'Tis the dessert that graces all the feast, for an ill end
disparages the rest."--_Art
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