"Shall not the wide-horn'd ox be fell'd?" cries he:

I sacrifice no ox—"Nor yet a wether?"

Not I, by Jove! a simple sheep perhaps:

"And what's a wether but a sheep?" cries he.

I'm a plain man, my friend, and therefore speak

Plain language:—"What! I speak as Homer does;

And sure a cook may use like privilege

And more than a blind poet."—Not with me;

I'll have no kitchen-Homers in my house!

So pray discharge yourself!—This said, we parted. —Cumberland.