Shakespeare quotes on food

If this uncouth forest yield anything savage, I will either be food for it or bring it for food to thee
Source: AS YOU LIKE IT

Then but forbear your food a little while, Whiles, like a doe, I go to find my fawn, And give it food

Now I think on thee My hunger's gone; but even before, I was At point to sink for food
Source: CYMBELINE

Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets, swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog, drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipp'd from tithing to tithing, and stock-punish'd and imprison'd; who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his body, horse to ride, and weapons to wear; But mice and rats, and such small deer, Have been Tom's food for seven long year
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR

Though their injunction be to bar my doors And let this tyrannous night take hold upon you, Yet have I ventur'd to come seek you out And bring you where both fire and food is ready
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR

Farewell, sweet playfellow; pray thou for us, And good luck grant thee thy Demetrius! Keep word, Lysander; we must starve our sight From lovers' food till morrow deep midnight
Source: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, Gorg'd with the dearest morsel of the earth, Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open, And in despite I'll cram thee with more food
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET

Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him; There let him stand and rave and cry for food
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF TITUS ANDRONICUS

Will you walk on, my lord? She was belov'd, she lov'd; she is, and doth; But still sweet love is food for fortune's tooth
Source: THE HISTORY OF TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

O, know'st thou not his looks are my soul's food? Pity the dearth that I have pined in By longing for that food so long a time
Source: THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

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