The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dered to provide ; but when, being tired with expectation, we ordered our fer- vants to fee for fomething elfe, we were informed that there was nothing elfe $ on which Mrs. Hutnphrys being fum- moned, declared there was no fuch thing as mutton to be had at Ryde. When I expreffed feme aftonifhment at their having no butcher in a village fo fituated, (lie anfwered they had a very good one, and one that killed all forts of meat in feafon, beef two or three times a year, and mrnton the whole year round ; but that it being then beans and peale time, he killed no meat, by reafon he was fare of not felling it. This the had not thought worthy of com¬ munication, any more than that there lived a fifherman at next door, who was then provided wi.h plenty of foals, and whitings, and lobfters, far fuperi- or to thofe which adorn a cky-feaft. This difcovery being made by accident, we completed the heft, the plcafanteft, and the merrieft meal, with more appe¬ tite more real, folid luxury, and more fef- . tivity.