EGGS IN LITERATURE. 41 
that ruler, elections were decided by contests in 
ego-cathering. He who first obtained the 
greatest number being chosen king. 
The huts on the island are usually shaped 
like half-sections of an egg. 
It is by no means possible to give here all or 
even the larger part of the quotations worthy 
to be gathered on this subject. 
Many of these are such terse epigrammatic 
expressions that they have become proverbs, and 
their original authors have been lost to sight by 
their general use. 
The egg was a favorite illustration with 
Shakespeare, and he often uses it to convey 
some biting sarcasm. 
“ An egg or two on holidays at most, 
But their religion ne’er allowed a roast.” 
DRYDEN. — Cock and Foz. 
“The yolke of the egg cannot be without the 
whyte, nor the whyte without the yolke, no 
more maye the clergy and the lordes be one 
without another.” Berners’ Froissart. 
