Three times the spoon with oil from Lucca crown,

And once with vinegar procured from town.

True flavour needs it, and your poet begs

The pounded yellow of two well-boiled eggs;

Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl,

And, scarce suspected, animate the whole.

And, lastly, on the flavoured compound toss

A magic teaspoon of anchovy sauce.

Then though green turtle fail, though venison's tough,

And ham and turkey are not boiled enough,