 | 1828 - 532 pages
...small beerCow's milk, and water-gruel were his cheer. OFFLKY. Offley, three dishes had of daily roost, An egg, an apple, and (the third) a toast. Hasselquist,...on a journey to Cairo, lived for two months on gum arable ; and arrived at Cairo, without any unusual sickness or mortality." In Queen Elizabeth's time,... | |
 | 1828 - 918 pages
...he abhorred, and wine ; be drank emailbeer — Cow'e milk and water-gruel were his cheer. OFFLÏY. Offley, three dishes had of daily roast, An egg, an...the following singular fact : — " Above a thousand Abyssimans, who were destitute, of provisions on a journey to Cairo, lived for two months on gum arabic,... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - 1838 - 456 pages
...curious treatise on fasting in Lent : Paris, 1709. The following lines were written on a man named Offley : Offley three dishes had of daily roast ; An egg, an apple, and the third a toast. Most unquestionably, if this Offley was not a man of hard labour, or who took much exercise, this diet,... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 626 pages
...bountiful performances. I believe it was the first of these three Offleys on whom the rhythm was made, " Offley three dishes had of daily roast ; An egg, an apple, and (the third) a toast." This I behold neither sin nor shame in him, feeding himself on plain and wholesome repast, that he... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 624 pages
...performances. I believe it was the first of these three Offleys on whom the rhythm was made, " Oftiey three dishes had of daily roast ; An egg, an apple, and (the third) a toast." This I behold neither sin nor shame in him, feeding himself on plain and wholesome repast, that he... | |
 | Edward Hinchliffe - 1856 - 430 pages
...children. The following couplet contains a satire, perhaps, on the penuriousness of Sir Thomas: — " Offley three dishes had of daily roast, An egg, an apple. and (the third) a toast." Contrasted with Lord Mayors', and great men's dinners, nowa-days, this daily roast sinks into very... | |
 | John Timbs - 1876 - 510 pages
...treatise on fasting in Lent, 1709. The following lines were written on a man named Offley : — Ofllcy three dishes had of daily roast — An egg, an apple, and the third a toast. Most unquestionably, if this Offley was not a man of hard labour, or who took much exercise, this diet,... | |
 | Charles Mathew Clode - 1888 - 480 pages
...Zacchseus of London, not for his low stature but his high charity," on whom the rhyme was made — " Offley three dishes had of daily roast An egg, an apple, and (the third) a toast." " feeding himself on plain and wholesome repast that he might feed others by his bounty." The other,... | |
 | 1892 - 588 pages
...the Newington people, The rector and church without any steeple. Temp. 1793. I. 140. OFFLEY (name). Offley three dishes had of daily roast, An egg, an apple, and (the third) a toast. On Sir Thomas Offley, Lord Mayor of London, 1556, but a Cheshire man. AT. i. 296. Ramsay the rich,... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1894 - 280 pages
...half his estate to the poor, having lived with such abstemiousness as to give rise to the rhyme — ' Offley three dishes had of daily roast — An egg, an apple, and the third a toast.' Tanners belonged at the time of his death to Sir Philip Sidney, afterwards from 1603 to the Sackvilles,... | |
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This I behold neither sin nor shame in him, feeding himself on plain and wholesome repast, that he might feast others by his bounty, and thereby deserving rather praise than a jeer from posterity. 
