Then salted meats, with store of vegetables,
And fragrant honey, till the pamper'd taste,
High fed with luscious dainties, grew too nice
To feed on human garbage, and mankind
Began to feel the joys of social life;
The scatter'd tribes unite; towns soon were built
And peopled with industrious citizens.
These and a thousand other benefits
Were the result of cookery alone.
B. Oh, rare! where will this end?