| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| 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. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| | 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] |
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