The heavily Botoxed, stylishly black-clad, elegantly blinged women who organized this evening may not want to imitate Bette's style, but they certainly love her sass.

The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

But now we must beleue that he cometh downe agayn at the wyll of the prestes, to be inpaned or inbreaded for their bellyes common welthe, lyke as he afore came downe, at the wyll of hys heuenlye father, to be incarnated or infleshed for our vnyuersall sowles helth.

For well ſhe wiſt,as true it was indeed / That her liues Lord and patrone of her health / Right well deſerued as his duefull meed, / Her loue,her ſeruice,and her vtmoſt wealth.