From _The Adventures of Don Quixote_, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Part 2, chapter 59. (Published in 1614)

Sancho Panza: What have you to give us to eat?
Landlord: You can have as much as you can eat of anything you
like to ask for, as the inn is well stocked with the birds
of the air, the fowls of the woods and the fish of the sea.
S: There's no need of all that. We shall be satisfied with a
couple of chickens roasted for us, for my master is weak in
the stomach and eats little, and I'm no enormous glutton.
L: I have no chickens, for the kites have devoured them.
S: Then, Master Host, have a pullet roasted for us, so long as
it's a tender one.
L: A pullet! Good heavens! Indeed, I sent more than fifty to
town only yesterday to be sold. Ask for anything else you
like, your worship, but not for pullets.
S: Well, there'll be no shortage of veal or goat, surely.
L: We've none in the house just now for they're all finished up,
but next well we shall have plenty.
S: That'll do us a lot of good! But I'll bet you can make up
for everything with lashings of bacon and eggs.
L: My Lord! He's a fine one, this guest of mine. I've just told
him I've got no pullets or hens, and he expects me to have
eggs! Discuss some other delicacies, if you like, but stop
asking for rarities.
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