And cities flourish'd, which we cooks adorn'd
With all the pleasures of domestic life.—D'Israeli.
The same.
Cook. Do you not know that cookery has brought
More aids to piety than aught besides?
Slave. What? is the matter thus?
Cook. Yes, you Barbarian!
It freed us from a beast-like, faithless life,
And hateful cannibalism, and introduced us
To order, and enclosed us in the world