plump quotes

Give me the plumpVenetian, fat, and lusty, That meets me soft and supple, smiles upon me As if a cup of full wine leaped to kiss me.

- Dario Fo
c.1621 The Wild-Goose Chase, act1, sc.2.

The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.

- Sir Boyle Roche
Quoted in SirJonah Barrington Personal Sketches and Recollections of his ownTimes (1827).

  The maid (and thereby hangs a tale) For such a maid no Whitson-ale Could ever yet produce: No grape that's kindly ripe, could be So round, so plump, so soft as she, Nor half so full of juice.

- SirJohn Suckling
  'Ballad: Upon aWedding'.