CHAPTER III

FOR ENDINGS OF DINNER MENUS, PROGRAMS, ETC.

Let us take a ceremonious leave

And loving farewell of our several friends.

RICHARD II, i, 3.

But lest too many dishes should cast you into a Surfeit, I will now take away; yet so that, if I perceive you relish this well, the rest shall be in time prepared for you.

Dinner Menus.

Dinner Menus.

In the hope to meet

B. Jonson, UNDERWOODS.

Shortly again and make our absence sweet.

Madam, I must take my leave; come, gentle

men are you for a march ?

Swift, POLITE CONVERSATIONS, i.

The goodness of the night upon you, friends!

Since I have your good leave to go away, I

will make haste.

MERCHANT OF VENICE, iii, 2.

MERCHANT OF VENICE, ii, 6.

Speed the parting guest.

Pope, ODYSSEY, xv.

Serenely full, the epicure would say,

Fate cannot harm me,-I have dined to-day.
Sydney Smith, RECIPE FOR Salad.

So comes a reckoning when the banquet 's o'er-
The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more.
Gay, THE WHAT D'YE CALL IT, i, 9.

Shrine of the mighty! can it be

That this is all remains of thee? Byron, The GIAOUR.

Gude nicht, and joy be wi' you a'.

Must we part?

LADY NAIRNE.

Well, if we must- we must-and in that case,
The less is said the better. Sheridan, THE CRITIC, ii, 2.

The end must justify the means. Prior, HANS Carvel.

Soft! I will go along.

ROMEO AND JULIET, i, 1.

Dinner Menus.

I have more care to stay than will to go.

Here late, with much ado I left to look upon

Good night and welcome, both at once, to those

That go or tarry.

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, V, I.

What news, gentlemen,

Have you any news for after dinner? Methinks
We should not spend our time unprofitably.

B. Jonson, THe Staple of News, iv, 1.

After the

And now farewell

Ladies go.

Till half an hour hence.

Men's Dinner.

TEMPEST, iii, 1.

Left and abandon'd of his velvet friends.

AS YOU LIKE IT, ii, 1.

If thus thou vanishest, thou tell'st the world
It is not worth leave-taking.

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, V, 2.

Let me but meet you, ladies, one hour hence.

RICHARD III, iv, 1.

I will go meet the ladies.

If I like thee no worse after dinner

I will not part from thee yet.

CORIOLANUS, v, 4.

LEAR, i, 4.

They are at the end of the Gallery; retired to their Tea and Scandal; according to their Ancient Custom after Dinner.

Congreve, Double Dealer, i, 1.

Let us make an honorable retreat; though not with bag and baggage.. AS YOU LIKE IT, iii, 2.

Is he coming home?

It seems he hath great care to please his wife.

COMEDY OF ERRORS, ii, 1.

Good master doctor, see him safe convey'd
Home to my house.

COMEDY OF ERRORS, iv, 4.

But 't is no wit to go.

ROMEO AND JULIET, i, 4.

Why, may one ask?

It is good morrow, is it not?

Indeed, my lord, I think it be two o'clock.

I HENRY IV, ii, 4.

Hang Sorrow! Care will kill a cat-
And therefore let 's be merry.

George Wither, CHRISTMAS.

After dinner to billiards, where I won an angel.

Pepys, DIARY, Sept. 11, 1665.

I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise." Swift, POLITE CONVERSATIONS, ii.

For those that fly may fight again,
Which he can never do that 's slain.

Butler, HUDIBRAS, iii, 3.

From this day forward

I'll hate all breakfasts and depend on dinners.

Beaumont and Fletcher, THE SPANISH CURATE, v, 3.

You are welcome home, my lord.

I thank you, madam.

MERCHANT OF VENICE, v, I.

Protect me from the sin

That dooms me to those dreadful words,

"My dear, where have you been?"

O. W. Holmes, ON LENDING A PUNCH BOWL.

Sit, worthy friends, my lord is often thus,
And hath been from his youth.

What 's done is done.

MACBETH, iii, 4.

MACBETH, iii, 2.

Men's Dinner.