Alban banquets bless our wishes,—
Cæsar’s garlands deck our head.
Now the dish of Æsop yielding,
Apicius all his luxuries pours;
And Ptolomies the sceptres wielding
Richest viands give in showers.”
And so on, until in the concluding stanza Badius declares—
“If great Jove himself invited
At our feasting takes his seat,
Jove would say, ‘I am delighted,