"Fatly" Quotes from Famous Books
... not swear. I have five sons, all pretty, tender babes, That live upon the farm that he would have; Twelve hundred sheep do feed upon the plains, That yearly bring a great increase to me, Besides a hundred oxen, fatly fed, That every winter feed within my stalls, And twenty poor men, living near my house, I daily feed, and all upon my farm. Go but among my neighbours, where I dwell, And hear what good report they give of me. The poor man never yet went from my ... — A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VI • Robert Dodsley |