 The laudable use of forks, Brought into custom here, as they are in Italy, To the sparing of napkins: that, that should have made Your bellows go at the forge, as his at the furnace.  Works - Page 129by Ben Jonson - 1875Full view - About this book
 | 1806 - 924 pages
...Huwer and the glory oí liiiu mghly tiwwntd country.'" it is curióos, that xviiat Ben Jonson calls ' the laudable use of forks Brought into custom here, as they are in Italy To the sparing o' napkins,' should not yet have bucome general in the Spanish and Portugueze colonies.... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 780 pages
...what? Mcer. Upo' my project <>' the forks. ¿le. Forks ( wuat be they ? [The project of forks. Meer. The laudable use of forks, Brought into custom here, as they are ia Italy ', To th' sparing o' napkins. That, that should luve made [furnace. Your bellows go at the... | |
 | Thomas Dekker - 1812 - 228 pages
..." And handling of your silvcr/orA- at meals." VOLPONE, A. 4, S. i. The same author again mentions " The laudable use of forks " Brought into custom here, as they are in Italy, " To th' sparing o' napkins." THE DEVIL is AN Ass, A. 5, S. 4, Beaumont and Fletcher too have a banter... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 472 pages
...a patent? Gilt. For what? Meer. Upon my project of the forks. Sledge. Forks ! what be they ? Meer. The laudable use of forks, Brought into custom here, as they are in Italy, 3 the laudable use of forks, Brought into custom here, at they are in Italy.] The practice of eating... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 474 pages
...a patent? Gilt. For what ? Meer. Upon my project of the forks. Sledge. Forks ! what be they ? Meer. The laudable use of forks, Brought into custom here, as they are in Italy,* 3 the laudable use of forks, Brought into custom here, as they are in Italy.] The practice of eating... | |
 | Richard Brown (architect.) - 1841 - 618 pages
..." project of the forks," and Sledge inquires — " Forks ?— what be they ?" Meercraft answers — The laudable use of forks, Brought into custom here, as they are in Italy, To th' sparing o' napkins." * Cupboards were triangular buffets. — (Stow.) t The good man of the... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - 1845 - 484 pages
...what? Meercraft. — Upon nay project of the forks. Sledye.— Forks I w/uit be fay f Meercraft. — The laudable use of forks, Brought into custom here as they are in Italy, To the sparing of napkins : that, that should have made Your bellows go at the forge, as his at the... | |
 | Johann Beckmann - 1846 - 568 pages
...For what ? " Meercraft, Upon my project of theforlts. " Sledge. Forks \ What be they ? " Meereraft. The laudable use of forks, Brought into custom here as they are in Italy, To the sparing of napkins."] 1 Fischer's Reise nach Madrid, p. 238. which occurs first in dictionaries... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1856 - 432 pages
...Gilthead. For what? Meercraft. Upon my project of the forks. Sledge. Forks ! 'What be they ? Meercraft. The laudable use of forks, Brought into custom here as they are in Italy, To the sparing of napkins, &c. Beckmann, to whom we owe our information on this as on so many other... | |
 | John M'Elheran - 1858 - 414 pages
...came in due course. In Ben Jon son is the following : — " Sledge. Forks ! what be they ! Meercraft. The laudable use of forks Brought into custom here, as they are in Italy, To the sparing of napkins." If we believe some English historians, the English people were a gentle,... | |
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