Percival Leigh, Manners and customs of ye Englyshe… (1849)
“ But good Lack! to see the Fulness of the Place, every Table almost crowded with eager Eaters, and Heaps of Whitebait among them, and they with open Mouths and Eyes shovelling Spoonful after Spoonful into their Plates and thence thrusting them five or six at a Time into their Chaps. ”
Percival Leigh, Manners and customs of ye Englyshe… (1849)
“ Then, here and there, a fat Fellow, stopping, out of Breath, to put down his Knife and Fork, and gulp a Goblet of iced Punch, was mighty droll: also to hear others speaking with their Mouths full. But Dinner coming, I cared not to look about me, there being on Table some dozen different Dimes of him, whereof the Sight did at first bewilder me, like the Donkey between the I Haystacks, not knowing which to choose ”
