Dinner Menus. But hark! the chiming clocks to dinner call. Pope, MORAL ESSAYS, iv. Th' unknowing man Eats only flesh, the understanding valour: W. Cartwright, THE ORDINARY, ïi, 1. The sauce to meat is ceremony; MACBETH, iii, 4. To thee and thy company I bid a hearty wel-· come. Welcome, my friends all! TEMPEST, V, I. TEMPEST, V, I. At dinner-time, I pray you, have in mind where we must meet. MERCHANT OF VENICE, i, 1. Bid your friends welcome, show a merry cheer. MERCHANT OF VENICE, iii, 2. Feast with the best, and welcome to my house. TAMING OF THE SHREW, v, 2. What better or properer can we call our own than the riches of our friends? TIMON OF Athens, i, 2. What, do we meet together? Ay, and I think one business doth command us all. TIMON OF ATHENS, iii, 4. You that way, and you this, but two in company. TIMON OF ATHENS, v, I. Within this hour it will be dinner time. COMEDY OF Errors, i, 2. We'll bring your friends and ours to this large Dinner Menus. dinner: It works the better eaten before witness. W. Cartwright, THE ORDINARY, ii, 1. Sancho. The cooks are hard at work, Sir, chopping Herbs, and mincing Meats, and breaking Marrow-bones. Carlos. And is it thus at every dinner? Sancho. No, Sir, but we have high doings today. Cibber, LOVE MAKES A MAN, ii. I had a good dinner for them, as a venison pasty and some fowl, and after dinner we did play. Pepys, DIARY, Nov. 15, 1667. My wife had got ready a very fine dinner-viz: a dish of marrow-bones; a leg of mutton; a loin of veal; a dish of fowl; three pullets and two dozen of larks all in a dish; a great tart, a neat's tongue, a dish of anchovies, a dish of prawns and cheese. Must we all march? Pepys, DIARY, JAN. 26, 1660. Yea, two and two, Newgate fashion. I HENRY IV, iii, 3. Dinner Menus. Cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast. KING RICHARD II, i, 3 Being no further enemy to you Than the constraint of hospitable zeal. KING JOHN, ii, 1. The glory of the kitchen! that holds cookery And swears he is not dead yet but translated B. Jonson, THE STAPLE OF NEWS, iii, 1. My meat shall all come in in Indian shells, B. Jonson, THE ALCHEMIST, ii. And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another. COMEDY OF ERRORS, V, I. The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony. HAMLET, ii, 2. Most welcome! Be sprightly, for you fall 'mongst friends. CYMBELINE, iii, 6. Sit down and feed and welcome to our table. AS YOU LIKE IT, ii, 7. Bid them cover the table, serve in the meat. MERCHANT OF VENICE, iii, 5. Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly? MERCHANT OF VENICE, iv, 1. It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. MERCHANT OF VENICE, iv, 1. Such and so various are the tastes of men. Akenside, PLEASURES of the Imagination, iii. Some . . . are to be tasted, others to be swal- Dinner Menus. lowed and some to be chewed and digested. Bacon, ESSAYS (Studies). Cookery is become an art, a noble science. Burton, ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, i. The footman, in his usual phrase, Swift, A MODERN LADY. You are very welcome to our house: MERCHANT OF VENICE, v, I. Is 't near dinner-time? I would it were. A man is Two GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, i, 2. never welcome to a place till the hostess say "Welcome!" You are passing welcome And so I pray you all to think yourselves. TAMING OF THE SHREW, ii, 1. It is a hard matter for friends to meet; but mountains may be removed with earthquakes and so encounter. AS YOU LIKE IT, iii, 2. This so noble and so fair assembly This night to meet here. HENRY VIII, i, 4. This is the period of my ambition: O this blessed hour! MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, iii, 3. A good digestion to you all; and once more HENRY VIII, i, 4. |