Buckinghamshire bread and beef.

This county does not seem to have been particularly famous for either bread or beef. Fuller says only that the former was as fine, and the latter as fat, as in any other country, Probably this was only written to give a rhyme to the following line: Here, if you beat a bush, ’tis odds you’ll start a thief.

Entry taken from Provincial Glossary, edited by Francis Grose.

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Buckinghamshire bread and beef
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