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Yet shall you have to rectify your palate,
An olive, capers, or some better salad
Ushering the read more
Yet shall you have to rectify your palate,
An olive, capers, or some better salad
Ushering the mutton; with a short-legged hen,
If we can get her, full of eggs, and then,
Limons, and wine for sauce: to these a coney
Is not to be despaired of for our money;
And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks,
The sky not falling, think we may have larks.
Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner.
Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.
Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.
He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
Better halfe a loafe than no bread.
Better halfe a loafe than no bread.
They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet
Quaff immortality and joy.
They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet
Quaff immortality and joy.
Oh, dainty and delicious!
Food for the gods! Ambrosia for Apicius!
Worthy to thrill the soul of read more
Oh, dainty and delicious!
Food for the gods! Ambrosia for Apicius!
Worthy to thrill the soul of sea-born Venus,
Or titillate the palate of Silenus!
Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be.
Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be.
