Two dozen of marrow-bones shall play continually.

For fish I'll make you a standing lake of white broth,

And pikes come ploughing up the plums before them,

Arion-like, on a dolphin, playing Lachrymæ;

And brave king herring, with his oil and onion,

Crown'd with a lemon peel, his way prepared

With his strong guard of pilchers."

[The Bloody Brothers, or Rollo Duke of Normandy, by Beaumont and Fletcher, vol. VII. act II. scene II. p. 151.]


CHAPTER VIII.—Vol. i., p. 200.