Dinner Menus. He would have all as merry as, first, HENRY VIII, i, 4. Small Dinner. We 'll keep no great ado, a friend or two. I had an extraordinary good dinner, and the better because dressed by my own servants, and were mighty merry. Pepys, DIARY, March 23, 1660. I did give him a bottle of wine, and was exceedingly satisfied of the power that I have to make my friends welcome. Pepys, DIARY, March 31, 1660. What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Milton, To MR. LAWRENCE. No variety here, But you, most noble guests, whose gracious looks Must make a dish or two become a feast. W. Cartwright, THE ORDINARY, iii, 4. The true essentials of a feast are only fun and feed. O. W. Holmes, Nux POSTCONAtica. He says he 'll come; how shall I feast him? Come, let us four to dinner. TWELFTH NIGHT, iii, 4. I HENRY VI, ii, 4. Why muse you, sir? 't is dinner time. Two GENTLEmen of Verona, ii, 1. With a few friends, and a few dishes dine, Cowley, LIBERTY. Small Dinner. Then scorn a homely dinner if you can. Pope, SATIRES, ii, 12. Come, let's fall to; and, gentle girl, eat this. Without TITUS ANDRONICUS, iii, 2. Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner,— honest water which ne'er left man i' the mire. TIMON OF ATHENS, i, 2. Some food we had and some fresh water. TEMPEST, i, 2. Men really know not what good water 's worth. 'Byron, DON JUAN, i, 1. For in my youth I never did apply AS YOU LIKE IT, ii, 3. And drink, of Adam's ale. Prior, WANDERING Pilgrims. Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Shelley, LETTER TO M. G. Without Wine. Give me the spring, which does to human use Cowley, AVARICE. I deal with water and not with wine. Give me my tankard then. B. Jonson, EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOR, i, 3. A health to dear woman! She bids us untwine, O. W. Holmes, SONG FOR A Temperance Dinner. Even cold Cochituate every heart shall warm, O. W. Holmes, A SENTIMENT. Lemonade. Have you sent to the apothecary for a sufficient quantity of cream of tartar to make lemonade? You know I die if I have not everything in the highest style. Colman (the Elder), MAN AND WIFE, iii. Men's Dinner. Hungry as the sea, and can digest as much. TWELFTH NIGHT, ii, 4. I pray you jest, sir, as you sit at dinner. COMEDY OF Errors, i, 2. And carouse together like friends long lost. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, iv, 12. Take them to the buttery, and give them friendly welcome every one. Taming of the Shrew, Induction. Take the goods the gods provide thee. Dryden, ALEXander's Feast, v. The best attendance; the best drink; sometimes two glasses of Canary and pay nothing! B. Jonson, THE ALCHEMIST, iii, 2. Pope, IMITATIONS OF HORACE, ii, 2. Judicious drank, and greatly daring din'd. Pope, DUNCIAD, iv. Well, he was an ingenious man that first found out eating and drinking. Swift, POLITE CONVERSATIONS, ii. That all-softening, overpowering knell, The tocsin of the soul—the dinner bell. Byron, DON JUAN, v. Since Eve ate apples much depends on dinner. Byron, DON JUAN, xiii. As much valor is to be found in feasting as in fighting. Burton, ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, i. It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory. Grover Cleveland. I speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge. Almost spent with hunger. CORIOLANUS, i, 1. CYMBELINE, iii, 6. Give them life whom hunger starved half dead. PERICLES, i, 4. Prepare for dinner. That is done, sir; they have all stomachs. MERCHANT OF VENICE, iii, 5. Compelled by hunger and lack of other means. HENRY VIII, i, 2. How, i' the name of thrift, does he rake this together. A dinner lubricates business. HENRY VIII, iii, 2. Lord Stowell. Men's Dinner. Men's Dinner. God sends meat and the Devil sends cooks. John Taylor, (1630). O hour of all hours the most bless'd upon earth, Owen Meredith, LUCILE, i, 2. Where is the man that can live without dining? Owen Meredith, LUCILE, i, 2. But if you have a stomach, to 't i' God's name. TAMING OF THE SHREW, i, 2. Do as adversaries in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. TAMING OF THE SHREW, i, 2. I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, i, I. Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. I have good cheer at home; and I pray you all go with me. MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, iii, 2. Well! I promised you a dinner! MERRY WIVES OF Windsor, iii, 3. Liquor likewise will I give to thee, And friendship shall combine and brotherhood. Hunger is sharper than the sword. HENRY V, ii, 1. Beaumont and Fletcher, HONEst Man's Fortune. He which hath no stomach to this fight, HENRY V, iv, 3. Live while you live, the epicure would say, |