table (n.)

table (v.)

table (adj.)

The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

New Testament: Matthew xv. 27.

Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones,

Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Age of Bronze. Stanza 3.

I drink to the general joy o' the whole table.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"Sit there, clod-pate!" cried he; "for let me sit wherever I will, that will still be the upper end, and the place of worship to thee."

Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616): Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxi.

While memory holds a seat

In this distracted globe. Remember thee!

Yea, from the table of my memory

I 'll wipe away all trivial fond records.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now; your gambols, your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? Quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1.

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book.

Old Testament: Isaiah xxx. 8.

Let it serve for table-talk.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5.

And not to serve for a table-talk.

Michael De Montaigne (1533-1592): Book ii. Chap. iii. The Custom of the Isle of Cea.

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