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"Diners cannot be long where dainties want ; Where coin is not common, commons must he scant."
John Heywood, A Dialogue of the effectual proverbs in the English Tongue, Part II, Chapter 1, 1546, p. 51.
 
Chromonicci — Rush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGIXhSO9TdU

"This was what she said, and Ulysses was glad when he heard her trying to get presents out of the suitors, and 
flattering them with fair words which he knew she did not mean. Then Antinous said, 'Queen Penelope, daughter 
of Icarius, take as many presents as you please from any one who will give them to you; it is not well to refuse 
a present; but we will not go about our business nor stir from where we are, till you have married the best man 
among us whoever he may be.'"
Homer, The Odyssey, Book XVII, trans. Samuel Butler, l. 281-289 [Each man sent a herald out to fetch some gifts.]

"Gang on, my lads; it's lang sin syne We kent auld Epicurus' line; Save you the board wad cease to rise,
Bedight with daintiths to the skies; And salamanders cease to swill The comforts o' a burning gill."
Robert Fergusson, Auld Reikie [nickname given by people who never crossed her doors as that was all they knew.]

NEFFEX — Play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z69QxZyeVzE

"The law of benefits is a difficult channel, which requires careful sailing, or rude boats. It is not the office of a man 
to receive gifts. How dare you give them? We wish to be self-sustained. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand 
that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, for that is a way of receiving it 
from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because 
there seems something of degrading dependence in living by it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays and English Traits, XIII. Gifts, 1844.