On these alone doth Eros smile, within whose realms of night,

Where vulgar ghosts in shivering bands, all strangers to delight,

In leaky tub from Styx's flood the icy waters bear,

Condemn'd, for woman's lovely voice, its moaning sounds to hear. —J. A. St. John.


Athenion. (Book xiv. § 80, p. 1056.)

A. What! know you not that cookery has much

Contributed to piety? attend,

And I will tell you how. This art at first

Made the fierce cannibal a man; impress'd