John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
2990 John Dryden 1631-1700 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 2990 |
| AUTHOR: | John Dryden (1631–1700) |
| QUOTATION: | And new-laid eggs, which Baucis’ busy care Turn’d by a gentle fire and roasted rare. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book viii. Baucis and Philemon, Line 97. |
| Note 1. Our scanty mutton scrags on Fridays, and rather more savoury, but grudging, portions of the same flesh, rotten-roasted or rare, on the Tuesdays.—Charles Lamb: Christ’s Hospital five-and-thirty Years Ago. [back] |