Of modern dinners? where more mystery lurks,
In soups or sauces, or a sole ragoút,
Than witches, b—ches, or physicians, brew.
LXIII.
There was a goodly "soupe à la bonne femme"[754]
Though God knows whence it came from; there was, too,
A turbot for relief of those who cram,
Relieved with "dindon à la Périgeux;"
There also was——the sinner that I am!
How shall I get this gourmand stanza through?—