“I will eat exceedingly, and prophesy.”
Ben Jonson Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedy
Bartholomew Fair (1614), Act I, scene vi
“Alas! It is well written, "The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses."”
— Ernest Bramah, book The Wallet of Kai Lung
The Ill-Regulated Destiny of Kin Yen, the Picture-Maker
The Wallet of Kai Lung (1900)
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