Description must fail, and the pen is unable
To recount all the luxuries that cover’d the table.
Each delicate viand that taste could denote,
Wasps à la sauce piquante, and Flies en compôte;
[p19] Worms and Frogs en friture, for the web-footed Fowl,
And a barbecued Mouse was prepared for the Owl;
Nuts, grains, fruit, and fish, to regale every palate,
And groundsel and chickweed served up in a salad.
The Razor-bill[17] carved for the famishing group,