To move, I put much mustard in their dish;

With quickening sauces make their stupor keen,

And lash the lazy blood that creeps within. —D'Israeli.


Dionysius. (Book ix. § 69, p. 638.)

"Know then, the Cook, a dinner that's bespoke

Aspiring to prepare, with prescient zeal

Should know the tastes and humours of the guests;

For if he drudges through the common work,

Thoughtless of manner, careless what the place