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Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks;
Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night.
Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks;
Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night.
Fish and visitors stink after three days.
Fish and visitors stink after three days.
(Macbeth:) Here's our chief guest.
(Lady Macbeth:) If he had been forgotten,
It had been as a read more
(Macbeth:) Here's our chief guest.
(Lady Macbeth:) If he had been forgotten,
It had been as a gap in our great feast,
And all-thing unbecoming.
A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.
A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
[Lat., Quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor hospes.]
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
[Lat., Quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor hospes.]
When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul.
When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul.
Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
A guest and a fish after three days are poison
A guest and a fish after three days are poison
Sometimes, when guests have gone, the host remembers
Sweet courteous things unsaid.
We two have talked our read more
Sometimes, when guests have gone, the host remembers
Sweet courteous things unsaid.
We two have talked our hearts out to the embers,
And now go hand in hand down to the dead.
