To boyle a Capon larded with Lemons.

As he stood outside he heard his wife's relations talking inside, and from their conversation he learnt that they had killed a capon for supper, and that there was enough for each of them to have three slices of capon and five pieces of the vegetable which was cooked with it.

It was the wisest saying that my father ever uttered, that a wife was the name of necessity, not of pleasure; for what do men marry for, but to stock their ground, and to have one to look to the linen, sit at the upper end of the table, and carve up a capon; one that can wear a hood like a hawk, and cover her foul face with a fan.

"My daughter, sir," exclaimed the squire; "as good a girl as ever lived to make a cheese, brew good beer, preserve all sorts of wines, and cook a capon with a chaudron!

A venison pasty and a chine of beef are good every where; and so are crammed capons and fat chickens.

1. Had you not better have gone home without Lymons to eate Capons with your frends then to stay here without Capons to taste Lymons with us that you call Enemyes?

'You cannot feed capons so.' At Covent Garden Market, (in London) and the first-rate Flower-shops, a single wreath or nosegay is often made up for the head or hand at a price that would support a poor labourer and his family for a month.

"You'll fetch me a capon in white broth as my Lady Monmouth broileth hers.

Then a troop of servants entered bearing smoking joints, cold boars' heads, fish, turkeys, geese, and larded capons.

As regards capons, however, the rule respecting age does not hold good.

" Whilst I was talking to these angelic creatures, their beloved lord was quietly stuffing capons, without hearing our polite discourse.

[Footnote 12: Titus Andronicus, II. ii.] "Please to step in; we be just a-settin' down to suppera cold capon and a venison pasty.

But that affrights him not: capons and game, good wine and the dainties of the earth console him and cheer his heart.

Do you recollect Renzo tying four fat capons by the legs, and carrying them, with their heads hanging down, to Signor Azzeccagarbugli,and the capons, in that awkward predicament, finding no better occupation than to peck at each other?

Then people could buy an ox for 20s., a sheep for 3s., a calf for 2s., a goose for 6d., a capon for 4d., a hen for 2d., a pig for the same, and all other household provisions at a like rate.