So rich a fragrance does it yield his senses.

B. Say you the cook is living?

A. There is near

A cestreus, all unfed both night and day,

Scaled, wash'd, and stain'd with cochineal, and turn'd;

And as he nears his last and final turn

He cracks and hisses; while the servant bastes

The fish with vinegar: then there's Libyan silphium,

Dried in the genial rays of midday sun:—

B. Yet there are people found who dare to say