 | Henry Slingsby (writer of fiction.) - 1825 - 682 pages
...night, he was at his cups ; and he might have used Boniface's speech — " I have fed purely upon ale ; I have ate my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale ;" only substituting for ale, (which was not drunk in Flanders,) wine, and the beer of the country.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...meal, you mean, if one may guess by your bulk ? BON Not in my life, sir; I Imvu fed purely upon ale : of nobler time to come; Time higher aimed, atill n upo u my ale. Enter Tapster with a Tankard. Now, sir, yon shall see • Your worship's health. [Drinks."]... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - Ballads, English - 1839 - 382 pages
...For he who drinks—although he's dry— But since the tun which Bacchus used We have not here—what then? Since god-like toping is refused, Let's drink...(p. 82), that " Neither frost, snow, nor rain, any barm can do me ; The hedge is my pillow, my blanket the sky." The burlesque, classical, little j'eu... | |
 | Dialogues - 1839 - 544 pages
...mean, if any one may guess by your bulk. Unit. Not in my life, sir ; I have fed purely upon my ale : I have ate my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale. (Enter tapster, with a tankard.) Now, sir, you shall see :— your worship's health. (Drinks.) Ha!... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...meal, you mean, if one may guess by your bulk 1 Bon. Not in my life, sir; I have fed purely upon ale: I have ate my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon my ale. [Enter Tapster willi a Tankard.] Now, sir, you shall see—your worship's health : [Drinks.]... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...meal, you mean, if one may guess by your bulk 7 Bon. Not in my life, sir ; I have fed purely upon ale : I have ate my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon my ale. [Enter Tapster with a Tankard.] Now, sir, you shall see — your worship's health : [Drinks.]... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1871 - 466 pages
...you mean, if any one may guess by your bulk. Bon. Not in my life, sir; I have fed purely upon my ale: I have ate my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale. [En/er hipster, with a- tankard.} Now, sir, you shall see :—your worship's health. [Drinks.] Ha !... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...meal, you mean, if one may guess by your bulk ? BoN. Not m my life, sir ; I have fed purely upon ale: I have ate my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon my ale. Enter Tapster with a, Tankard. Now. sir, yon shall see 'Your worship's health. [Drinks.] —... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - English literature - 1886 - 418 pages
...mean, if one may guess your sense by your bulk. Bon. Not in my life, sir: I have fed purely upon ale; I have ate my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale. Enter TAPSTER with a bottle and glass, and exit. Now, sir, you shall see !— [pours out a glass}.... | |
 | John Martine - East Lothian (Scotland) - 1890 - 340 pages
...one may guess your sense by your bulk." Bon. — " Not in my life, sir. I have fed purely upon ale ; I have ate my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale. {Enter Tapster with a bottle and glass^\ T^ow sir, you shall see ! [filling it out\ Your worship's... | |
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Lichfield, man and boy, above eight-and-fifty years, and I believe have not consumed eight-and-fifty ounces of meat. 
