LAMB
"Pray you, who does the wolf love?"—Shakespeare.
"Ah, gentle lamb! 'Tis better that you be roasted and served to sympathizing human folk than be devoured ungracefully by ravenous beasts."—Six Dinners.
ROAST PIG
"See him in the dish, his second cradle!"—Charles Lamb.
"He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure, and for such a tomb might be content to die."—Charles Lamb.
CHICKENS
"We'll not eat crow, but him that crow'd."—Anon.