| English drama - 1780 - 496 pages
...will not pay for the fcraping of his trencher. Pioratto. Plague him ; 33 fet him beneath the fait; and let him not touch a bit, till every one has had his full cut. Flutlla. iign of an amorous conftitution. See the Notes of Dr. Johnfon and Mr. 3' of allfihht dry-fjled... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 442 pages
...provisions set before them. The former custom is mentioned in the Honest Whore, by Decker, 1635: " Plague him ; set him beneath the salt, and let him...touch a bit till every one has had his full cut." The latter was as much a subjeft of complaint in the time of Beaumont and Fletcher, as in that of Juvenal,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1793 - 646 pages
...cultom is mentioned in The Hoaeß Whore, by Decker, 1604 : " Plague him ; fet him brneath the fait, and let him not touch a bit till every one has had his full cut." The latter was as much a fubject of complaint in the time of Beaumont and Fletcher, as in that of Juvenal,... | |
| Walter Scott - English drama - 1810 - 618 pages
...lean-jawed slave will not pay for the scraping of his trencher. Cast. Why, wench, is he scabbed ? Pior. Plague him ; set him beneath the salt ; " and let...touch a bit, till every one has had his full cut. Fluel. Lord Ello, the gentleman-usher, came into us too : marry 'twas in our cheese, for he had been... | |
| Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 766 pages
...called The Honest Whore, 1604, mentions in strong terms the degradation of sitting beneath the salt: " Plague him, set him beneath the salt; and let him...touch a bit, till every one has had his full cut." f Hall too, in the sixth satire of his second book, published in 1597, when depicting the humiliated... | |
| 1818 - 782 pages
...the bottom. Decker again alluded to this in his Honest Whore, S. 5: Plague him; set him beneath 11w salt, and let him not touch a bit, till every one has had his full cut.'” “ Ben Jonson also refers to it, in his C'yullsia's Revels, A. 2. S. 2. where Mercury describes Anaides... | |
| England - 1818 - 790 pages
...Decker again alluded to this in his Honest W/iore, S. 5 : * Plague him ; set him beneath the sait, and let him not touch a bit, till every one has had his full cut' " " Ben Jonson also refers to it, in his Cynthia's lievcls, A. 2. S. 2. where Mercury describes Anaides... | |
| William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 428 pages
...coarser provisions set before them. The former custom is mentioned in The Honest Whore, by Decker, 1604: "Plague him; set him beneath the salt, and let him...touch a bit till every one has had his full cut." The latter was as much a subject of complaint in the time of Beaumont and Fletcher, as in that of Juvenal,... | |
| William Toone - 1832 - 584 pages
...sat nearest the head of the table or above the salt, and inferior relations or dependants below it. Set him beneath the salt; and let him not touch a bit till every one has had his full cut. OP Tax HONEST WHDRE. That he do on no default Ever presume to sit above the salt. BI«BOP HALL'S SATIRES.... | |
| William Toone - English language - 1832 - 532 pages
...sat nearest the head of the table or above the salt, and inferior relations or dependants below it. Set him beneath the salt; and let him not touch a bit till every one has had his fall cut. OP The Honest Whore. That he do on no default Ever presume to sit above the salt. Bishop... | |
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