To raise the dead, if they but snuff my dishes! —J. A. St. John.
Hegesippus. (Book vii. § 36, p. 455.)
A. I know it, my good friend, much has been said,
And many books been written, on the art
Of cookery; but tell me something new,
Something above the common, nor disturb
My brain with what I've heard so oft before.
B. Peace, and attend, you shall be satisfied—
For I have raised myself, by due degrees,