After a description of the Abbey of St. Clare, he writes: "Near adjoining to this Abbey, on the south side thereof, was sometime a farm belonging to the said nunnery, at which farm I myself, in my youth, have fetched many a halfpennyworth of milk, and never had less than three ale pints for a halfpenny in the summer, nor less than one ale quart for a halfpenny in the winter, always hot from the kine, as the same was milked and strained.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
I now give a halfpennyworth of bread to all this sack, an instance of the paradox of benevolence, in which an individual runs counter to all the ideas of his time, and sees his way into the next century.
"A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)"
Augustus de Morgan
But in my present undertaking it passes as the halfpennyworth of bread to many gallons of sack.
"A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)"
Augustus de Morgan