Exchequer/table

Famous quotes containing the words exchequer and/or table:

“Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The salt person and blasted place
I furnish with the meat of a fable;
If the dead starve, their stomachs turn to tumble
An upright man in the antipodes
Or spray-based and rock-chested sea:
Over the past table I repeat this present grace.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)