Here are your bedraggled friends!

FIRST POET (entering, to Ragueneau).

Brother-poet!....

SECOND POET (shaking Ragueneau by the hand).

Dear brother-poet!

THIRD POET.

Eagle of pastry-cooks!

(sniffing) It smells good in your nest.

FOURTH POET.

O Phœbus-Caterer! Apollo master-cook!....