...presently: immediately. 1 19. past eleven. Cf. Harrison, A Description of England, 1577, ii. 6, ' With us the nobility, gentry and students do ordinarily go to dinner at eleven before noon.' 135. blin: cease. OE. blinnan, to cease. Protnptoriw Parvulorum, ' BLYNNYN, or cesun, or leve-warke....

.... With us the nobilitie, gentrie and students, doo ordinarilie go to dinner at eleven before noone, and to supper at five, or between five and six at afternoon. The merchants dine and sup seldome before twelve at noone, and six at night, especiallie in London. The husbandmen dine at high...

...for a gentleman ever after. Elsewhere, affording more direct information, Harrison tells us: With us the nobility, gentry, and students do ordinarily go...sup seldom before twelve at noon, and six at night, especially in London. The husbandmen dine also at high noon as they call it, and sup at seven or eight;...

...table to go to evening prayer, and return from thence to come time enough to supper.' . . . With us the nobility, gentry, and students do ordinarily go...between five and six at afternoon. The merchants dine •This word is not obsolete. South-coast countrymen still eat nuntions and not luncheons.—W. * Here...

...formal; "a solemn supper" was a conventional phrase like our "formal dinner." — supper. "With us the nobility, gentry, and students do ordinarily go...supper at five, or between five and six at afternoon" — Harrison, Description of England. This supper is formal and later (see l. 41), psrhaps kept late...

...sup seldom before twelve at noon, and six at night, especially in London. The husbandmen dine also at high noon as they call it, and sup at seven or eight; but out of the term in our universities the scholars dine at ten. As for the poorest sort they generally dine...

...a considerable limitation. William Harrison, in his Description of England (1587), writes: 'With us the nobility, gentry and students do ordinarily go...sup seldom before twelve at noon, and six at night, especially in London.' Assuming that all sections of the public went to the play and remembering the...

...a considerable limitation. William Harrison, in his Description of England (1587), writes: 'With us the nobility, gentry and students do ordinarily go...sup seldom before twelve at noon, and six at night, especially in London.' Assuming that all sections of the public went to the play and remembering the...

...— save for the breakfast. "With us," he says, "the nobilitie, gentrie, and students doo ordinarilie go to dinner at eleven before noon, and to supper at five, or between five and six afternoone. The merchants dine and sup seldome before twelve at noone and six at night, especiallie...

...Europe that may compare in port and countenance with him during the time of his office. . . . With us the nobility, gentry and students do ordinarily go...sup seldom before twelve at noon, and six at night, especially in London. The husbandmen dine also at high noon as they call it, and sup at seven or eight,...