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Occupations-Culinary: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Hire me twenty cunning cooks.— Shakespeare — Romeo and Juliet. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 2.

Let housewives make a skillet of my helm.— Shakespeare — Othello. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 273.

She would have made Hercules have turned spit. C.— Shakespeare — Much Ado About Nothing. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 260.

The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit, The clock hath strucken twelve.— Shakespeare — Comedy of Errors. Act I. Sc. 2. L.44.

'Tis burnt; and so is all the meat. What dogs are these! Where is the rascal cook? How durst you, villains, bring it from the dresser, And serve it thus to me that love it not?— Shakespeare — Taming of the Shrew. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 164.

Weke, weke! so cries a pig prepared to the spit.— Shakespeare — Titus Andronicus. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 146.

Were not I a little pot and soon hot, my very my very lips might freeze to my teeth.— Shakespeare — Taming of the Shrew. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 5.

What's there? Things for the cook, sir: but I know not what.— Shakespeare — Romeo and Juliet. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 14.

Where's the cook? is supper ready, the supper ready, the house trimmed, rushes strewed, cobwebs strewed, cobwebs swept?— Shakespeare — Taming of the Shrew. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 47.

Would the cook were of my mind!— Shakespeare — Much Ado About Nothing. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 74.

The waste of many good materials, the vexation that frequently attends such mismanagements, and the curses not unfrequently bestowed on cooks with the usual reflection, that whereas God sends good meat, the devil sends cooks.— E. SMITH — The Compleat Housewife.

1727. Dentistry. Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearl a double row, Which, when her lovely laughter shows, They look like rosebuds fill'd with snow. Set to music by RICHARD ALISON-An Howre's Recreation in Musike. (See Oliphant's La Messa Madrigalesca. P. 229.)