But some poor spoil-sauce who for nothing works.

Therefore you see me here alone to-day.

A poor drachma hath my brethren purchased;

But under a crown I cook a dish for no man.

For ’twixt the common herd and me, you see,

There is a diff’rence: they into a dish

Fling whole meadows, and the guests they treat, Sir,

As though they were but oxen out at grass.

Herbs season they with herbs, and grass with grass;

And in the mess, garlic, coriander, fennel,