Would anyone who could actually dine on the smell of roast beef not be making a fine saving? [127] ... [127] Allusion to a famous legal tale related by Rabelais: a chef complained that a fool was savouring the smell of his roast beef: the judge ordered the fool to pay for his pleasure with the sound of his coins.
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Michel de Montaigne
from ‘III:5 On some lines of Virgil’
The Esssays: A selection. Trans. MA Screech
Penguin 1993, p.309 (fn 127)
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