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Verses,
Supposed to be Written by Alexander “Kitchener,” in the Desolate Island of “Porridge, in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.”
I am partial to table and tray,
My taste there is none can dispute,
Ragout, fricandeau, entremet,
I'm a judge of fish, flesh, fowl, and fruit;
Oh, Wilberforce, where is the charm
You and Butterworth find in a grace?
Unless I've my turbot quite warm,
Better dine on a horrible plaice!
My taste there is none can dispute,
Ragout, fricandeau, entremet,
I'm a judge of fish, flesh, fowl, and fruit;
Oh, Wilberforce, where is the charm
You and Butterworth find in a grace?
Unless I've my turbot quite warm,
Better dine on a horrible plaice!
O'er the rich smoking viands to preach,
Should be left for your love-feasts alone;
So books on good eating still teach,
In particular, vide my own;
But your thorough-bred saints, it is plain,
Cooling soup with indifference see,
Let the sparkles subside from Champagne—
Their tameness is shocking to me.
Should be left for your love-feasts alone;
So books on good eating still teach,
In particular, vide my own;
But your thorough-bred saints, it is plain,
Cooling soup with indifference see,
Let the sparkles subside from Champagne—
Their tameness is shocking to me.
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Ye haunches of fat buck or doe,
In kindness bestow'd upon men,
Could I drive this curs'd gout from my toe,
How soon I'd attack you again!
My palate I then might regale
On a white or a brown fricassee;
Dispatch a hen-pheasant or quail,
Or a basin of dear Callipee.
In kindness bestow'd upon men,
Could I drive this curs'd gout from my toe,
How soon I'd attack you again!
My palate I then might regale
On a white or a brown fricassee;
Dispatch a hen-pheasant or quail,
Or a basin of dear Callipee.
Callipee! oh, what pleasure untold
Resides in that rapturous word;
More than Sybarite banquets of old,
Or the modern cuisine can afford!
But the sound of the sweet dinner bell
At this moment excites but my spleen;
For no more, with its once pleasing knell,
It announces the smoking tureen.
Resides in that rapturous word;
More than Sybarite banquets of old,
Or the modern cuisine can afford!
But the sound of the sweet dinner bell
At this moment excites but my spleen;
For no more, with its once pleasing knell,
It announces the smoking tureen.
Ye Doctors, who're making your sport,
At each twinge which compels me to roar;
In pity convey some report
Of the taverns I visit no more!
Mr. Cuff, does he now and then send
A wish or a thought after me?
Oh, say Mr. Kay is my friend,
Though the Albion no longer I see.
At each twinge which compels me to roar;
In pity convey some report
Of the taverns I visit no more!
Mr. Cuff, does he now and then send
A wish or a thought after me?
Oh, say Mr. Kay is my friend,
Though the Albion no longer I see.
23
How sweet is a turkey and chine!
Ah, who from a dory could fly?
A carp stewed in port, how divine!
How enchanting a perigord pie!
When I think on a sweetbread ragout,
In a transport I start from my chair,
But the sight of my flannels and shoe
Soon hurries me back to despair.
Ah, who from a dory could fly?
A carp stewed in port, how divine!
How enchanting a perigord pie!
When I think on a sweetbread ragout,
In a transport I start from my chair,
But the sight of my flannels and shoe
Soon hurries me back to despair.
Come, wheel me away to my nest,
There let me in dreams yet partake
Of those dainties, the choicest and best,
Which fly me, alas! when awake;
A flask near my pillow, too, place,
Since old Sherry (Madeira's now out)
Is considered not bad for my case,
And half reconciles me to the Gout.
There let me in dreams yet partake
Of those dainties, the choicest and best,
Which fly me, alas! when awake;
A flask near my pillow, too, place,
Since old Sherry (Madeira's now out)
Is considered not bad for my case,
And half reconciles me to the Gout.
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