“We cannot all be masters.”
Two good lines from the Taming of the Shrew are given with the toast of “Literature and Science”:—
“My books and instruments shall be my company,
On them to look and practise by myself.”
A line under the toast of “The Press” says, in the words of the Merchant of Venice:—
“There are some shrewd contents in your paper.”
We have seen on several menu cards:—
“A good digestion to you all, and once more
I shower a welcome on you—welcome all.”
—Henry VIII.
A more general quotation (from Macbeth) is:—
“Now good digestion wait on appetite,
And health on both.”
The bill of fare for the Tercentenary Banquet held in 1864, at Stratford-on-Avon, in honour of Shakespeare, is perhaps the best specimen of cuisine literature ever produced. The following are a few of the edibles and the quotations:—