We’re now assembled; you may soon attend -
I’ll introduce you - “Gentlemen, my friend.”
“Now are you happy? you have pass’d a night
In gay discourse, and rational delight.”
“Alas! not so: for how can mortals think,
Or thoughts exchange, if thus they eat and drink?
No! I confess when we had fairly dined,
That was no time for intercourse of mind;
There was each dish prepared with skill t’invite,
And to detain the struggling appetite;