The biscuit was brought and he now only wanted,

To fully enjoy it, a glass of good wine.

He flew to the pepper and sat down before it,

And at peppering the well-buttered biscuit he went;

Then some cheese in a paste mixed with mustard spread o'er it,

And down to the kitchen the devil was sent.

"'Oh, how!' said the cook, 'can I thus think of grilling?

When common the pepper, the whole will be flat;

But here's the cayenne, if my master be willing