Mudcat Café message #2238858

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Thread #107815 Message #2238858
Posted By: Peace
17-Jan-08 - 07:34 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Only Beggars Dressed in Rags
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Only Beggars Dressed in Rags

"Eat slowly; only men in rags
and gluttons old in sin
Mistake themselves for carpet-bags
And tumble victuals in."
Sir Walter Raleigh, 'Instructions to His Son', 1632
(Consuming Passions, Jonathan Green, ed. (1985)