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Monday 19 December 2005

Modest sustenance: Monday's food quotation

I love no rost but a nut-browne toste
And a crab laid in the fyre;
A little breade shall do me stead,
Much breade I not desyre.

c. 1560 Gammer Gurton's Needle

Contributed by Andrew Dalby. Posted at 10:12
Categories: Literary Menus, Quotations