We here will get some balls of snow-white wool.

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You will serve up an egg well shred, and twice

Boil'd till it's hard; a sausage, too, of honey;

Some pickle from the frying-pan, some slices

Of new-made Cynthian cheese; and then

A bunch of grapes, steep'd in a cup of wine:

But this part of the dish is always laugh'd at,

And yet it is the mainstay of the meal.

B. Laugh on, my friend; but now be off, I beg,