dining with Duke Humphrey

Verb

dine with Duke Humphrey (third-person singular simple present dines with Duke Humphrey, present participle dining with Duke Humphrey, simple past and past participle dined with Duke Humphrey)

1. (archaic, intransitive) To go without dinner.
   • When I want prouant wᵗʰ: Humfrie
     I sup, & when benighted,
     I repose in Powles wᵗʰ: waking soules,
     Yet neuer am affrighted.
     When I lack food, I go
     without it, and when benighted,
     I repose in St. Paul’s (graveyard) with ghosts,
     Yet am never scared.c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)

   Synonyms:

   box Harry