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"A good honest fellow had a spare rib, on which he intended to sup with his family after a long and hard day's work at coppice cutting. Home he came at dark, with his two little boys, each with a witch of wood that they had carried four miles, cheered with the thought of the repast that awaited them. In he went, and found his wife, the Methodist parson and a whole troop of the sisterhood, engaged in prayer, and on the table lay scattered the clean polished bones of the spare rib ..."

William Cobbett (1762-1835)

"When mighty roat beef was the Englishman's food
It enobled our hearts and enriched our blood;
Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good,
Oh! the roast beef of Old England
And oh! for Old England's roast beef."

Henry Fielding (attrib.) 1707-1754

"The Boatswain of the ship did bring us out of the kettle a piece of hot salt beef, and some brown bread and brandy; and there we did make a little meal, but so good as I never would desire to eat better meat while I live, only I would have cleaner dishes."

Samuel Pepys, Diary - 25th March 1669

"Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy"

Edna Ferber 'Roast Beef, Medium' 1911