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{{Hoyt quote | num = 14 | text = God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks. John Taylor—Works. Vol.11. P. 85. (1630) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Cook and Confectioners' Dict.) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is— A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo; Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.

| author = Thackeray | work = Ballad of Bouillabaisse. | place = | note = | topic = | page = 139 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 16 | text = Corne, which is the staffe of life. Winslow—Good News from New England. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 139 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 17 | text = "Very astonishing indeed! strange thing!" (Turning the Dumpling round, rejoined the King), " 'Tis most extraordinary, then, all this is; It beats Penetti's conjuring all to pieces; Strange I should never of a Dumpling dream! But, Goody, tell me where, where, where's the Seam?" "Sire, there's no Seam," quoth she; "I never knew That folks did Apple-Dumplings sew." "No!" cried the staring Monarch with a grin; "How, how the devil got the Apple in?" | author = John Wolcot | cog = (Peter Pindar) | work = The Apple Dumplings and a King. | topic = | page = 104 }}

{{Hoyt topic|Coquetry}} {{center|1=(See also {{sc|Flirtation}})}}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 18 | text = Or light or dark, or short or tall, She sets a springe to snare them all: All's one to her—above her fan She'd make sweet eyes at Caliban. T. B. Alduicb.—Quatrains. Coquette. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 104 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 19 | text = Like a lovely tree She grew to womanhood, and between whiles Rejected several suitors, just to learn How to accept a better in his turn. | author = Byron | work = Don Juan. | place = Canto II. St. 128. | note = | topic = | page = 139 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 20 | text = Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and ' off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow, Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward | author = Byron | work = Don Juan. | place = Canto XII. St. 63. | note = | topic = | page = 139 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 21 | text = In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar;— O, they fish with all nets In the School of Coquettes! When her brooch she forgets 'Tis to show her new collar; In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar! | author = Austin Dobson | work = Rose-Leaves. Circe. | place = | note = | topic = | page = 139 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 22 | text = Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practise it, because the coquetry of some it restrained by fear or by reason. La Rochefoucauld—Maxims. No. 252. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 139 }} 