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" If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked ! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know, is damn'd : if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. "
Familiar Proverbial and Select Sayings from Shakspere - Page 31
by William Shakespeare, John B. Marsh - 1863 - 162 pages
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Shakespeare's Knowledge and Use of the Bible: With Appendix Containing ...

Charles Wordsworth - 1864 - 332 pages
...interpreted ; see Gen. xli., and compare King Henry IV. ist Party where Falstaff says to Prince Henry : — If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is lost : if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. Act ii. Sc. 2. From that...
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The plays of William Shakespeare, ed. by T. Keightley, Part 38, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1864 - 486 pages
...whoremaster, that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked ! If to be old a»id merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damn'd. If to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord ; banish...
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The Works of William Shakspere

William Shakespeare - 1868 - 786 pages
...hairs do witness it: but th.it he is (saving your reverence, I a whoremaster, that 1 utterly deny. nn old host lli.it 1 know is damned: if to be f.it be to be Mat eil, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 104

1868 - 792 pages
...the waters close over letter after letter of his name, saying, " If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked ; if to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host of our acquaintance is condemned." For it is sad to be obliged to avoid a pleasant shrewd fellow because...
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The complete works of Shakspere, with a memoir, and essay, by ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1870 - 740 pages
...white hairs do witness it: but that he is (saving your reverence) a whoremaster, that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, Heaven help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many on old host that I know is damned. If to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be...
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Plays of Shakespeare Selected and Prepared for Use in Schools ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1875 - 656 pages
...is old, — the more the pity, — his white hairs do witness it If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked ! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damn'd : if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's leau kine are to be loved. No, my good lord: banish...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: Complete, Accurately Printed from the Text ...

William Shakespeare - 1871 - 842 pages
...he is (saving your reverence) a whoremaster, that 1 utterly deny . If sack and sugar be a fault God • Trajptinu. "Confederate. «Int*oitadLest it should burn above the bounds of knovV, is damned: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine arc to be loved. No, my good...
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Reminiscences of Mark Lemon

Joseph Hatton - 1871 - 348 pages
...white hairs do witness it: but that he is (saving your reverence,) a villain, that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, heaven help the wicked! If to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord; banish Peto, banish...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1872 - 488 pages
...— saving your reverence, — a whoremaster, that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked ! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many ait old host that I know is damned: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 234

1873 - 756 pages
...he glozes his own pet weaknesses upon other occasions :— " If sack and sugar be a fault (he says), heaven help the wicked ! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is ' doomed.' If to be fat is to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved." The felicity of...
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