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