Robert Herrick Quotes about Eating

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Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.

Tables, Eating, Merriment

Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.131

Feed him ye must, whose food fills you. And that this pleasure is like raine, Not sent ye for to drowne your paine, But for to make it spring againe.

Spring, Eating, Pleasure

Robert Herrick (1844). “Hesperides Or Works Both Human and Divine”, p.39

Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.

Use, Delight, Eating

Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.236