Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.

I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.

We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties whose roots, being buried in dishonor, rise again in glory.

This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.

Explore everything; keep the best

By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which is to cool and refresh, besides its other properties... including beneficial influences on morals, temperance, and chastity.

Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.