"Nature's with little pleased, enough's a feast; A sober life but a small charge requires; But man, the author of his own unrest, The more he has, the more he still requires." "To bread or drink, to flesh or fish, Yet welcome is the best dish." JOHN HEYWOOD. "It is the fair acceptance, Sir, creates The entertainment perfect, not the cates." BEN JONSON, _Epigrams_, ci. "No simple word That shall be utter'd at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning." _Ibid._ "To spur beyond Its wiser will the jaded appetite, Is this for pleasure? Learn a juster taste, And know that temperance is true luxury." ARMSTRONG, _Art of Preserving Health_, book ii. "What an excellent thing did God bestow on man, When He did give him a good stomach!" BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. "The stomach is the mainspring of our system. If it be not sufficiently wound up to warm the heart and support the circulation, we can neither _Think_ with precision, _Sleep_ with tranquillity, _Walk_ with vigour, Or sit down with comfort." DR. KITCHENER. "The destiny of Nations has often depended upon the digestion of a Prime Minister."--DR. KITCHENER. "Is't a time to talk When we should be munching?" JUSTICE GREEDY, in MASSINGER'S _New Way to pay Old Debts_. "No roofs of gold o'er riotous tables shining, Whole days and sums devoured with endless dining." CRASHAW'S _Religious House_. "Now good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both." SHAKSPERE. "When you doubt, abstain." ZOROASTER. "Where there is no peace, there is no feast." CLARENDON. "Not meat, but cheerfulness, makes the feast." "Who carves, is kind to two; who talks, to all." GEORGE HERBERT. FOR KITCHENS. "A feast must be without a fault; And if 'tis not all right, 'tis nought." KING'S _Art of Cookery_. "Good-nature will some failings overlook, Forgive mischance, not errors of the cook." _Ibid._ FOR SUPPER-ROOMS. "Oppress not nature sinking down to rest With feasts too late, too solid, or too full." ARMSTRONG, _Art of Preserving Health_. "As men Do walk a mile, women should talk an hour After supper: 'tis their exercise." BEN JONSON, _Philaster_, act 2, sc. 4. FOR STILL-ROOMS. "The nature of flowers Dame Physic doth show; She teaches them all to be known to a few." TUSSER, _Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry_. "The knowledge of stilling is one pretty feat, The waters be wholesome, the charges not great." _Id. ibid._