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 EATING EATING Better halfe a loafe than no bread. Camden—Remaines. Proverbs. P. 293. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 211 }}

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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The true Amphitryon. Dryden—Amphitryon. Act IV. Sc. 1. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Moltere) i When we sat by the fleshpots. Exodus. XVI. 3. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 211 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!" Eugene Field—The Bottle and the Bird. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 211 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood— Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England, And Old England's roast beef. Henry Fielding—The Roast Beef of Old England. In Grub Street Opera. Act III. Sc. 2. Claimed for R. Leveridge. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 211 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them. Benj. Franklin—Poor Richard. (1733) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood. Gay—Trivia. Bk. III. L. 199. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 211 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale. | author = Goldsmith | work = Traveller. L. 17. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 211 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = "Here, dearest Eve," he exclaims, "here is food." "Well," answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within her, "we have been so busy to-day that a picked-up dinner must serve." Hawthorne—Mosses from an Old Manse. The New Adam and Eve. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 211 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Je veux que le dimanche chaque paysan ait sa poule au pot. I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays. Henry IV of France. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 211 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. Hebrews. V. 12. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 211 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age. Hebrews. V. 14. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 211 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel. Matthew Henry—Commentaries. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 211 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life. Matthew Henry—Commentaries. Psalm CIV. 15. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Swift}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He pares his apple that will cleanly feed. | author = Herbert | work = Church Porch. St. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 211 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A cheerful look makes a dish a feast. | author = Herbert | work = Jacula Prudentum. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 211 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Gluttony kills more than the sword | author = Herbert | work = Jacula Prudentum. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 211 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 'Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment. Herhick—Content not Cotes. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 211 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Out did the meate, out did the frolick wine. | author = Herrick | work = Ode for Ben Jonson. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 211 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat. Hetwood—Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. IV. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 211 }}