“Oh, the roast beef of England,
And old England's roast beef!”

—  Henry Fielding

The Grub Street Opera (1731), Act iii, scene 2; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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English novelist and dramatist 1707–1754

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