Delf

two delves gules

Five nothings in five plates of delf

Suddenly a beautiful delf blue-and-white flower-pot, which had been set on the window-sill of an upper storey, fell to the ground with a crash, and the fragments spluttered up around my father's legs.

That's all—do what we do, but noblier done— / Use plate, whereas we eat our meals off delf, / (To use a figure).

Men can't munch from meatless pots and doughless delf.