Show how it started by JEAN NEWTON TO DINE WITH DUKE HUMPHREY THIS phrase meaning to havenith hav enoth ing to eat cornea to us from eng land where it has been in use for sev eral hundred years humphrey duke of gloucester wh hied from 1301 to 1447 the youngest son of henry V was ren for his hospitality and known around london as the good duke when he aled there was talk of a monument to be erected to him in st paul but he was at the time dundei a charge of treason for which his wife flea nor was a life term in prison and this was not done in stead he was burled at st albans to the story accredited in england when idlers in hie ahbez leaving for their dinner would ask others whether they were going too those who had no meal to go to would answer that they would stay awhile longer and look for the monument for the duke so the din ing with duke humphrey became popular in the old days in london and has survived in the language to this dayi A similar saying the same in mean ing that Is frequently used in angland but Is not so well known in ahls couo try Is to sup with sir thomas Gres liam clr thoma be ini a sixteenth financier and philanthropist among whose charities were eight alms houses copyright |