With nose well plugg'd, and drag the wretch away.

Pupil. You're a great artist!

Cook. Yes, you do not know

To whom you're prating. There are very many

That I can spy amongst the audience there,

Who through my means have eat up their estates. —Anon.


Footnotes.

[146] According to some, Plato.

[147] The lines are versions of parts of the long poem as found in Athenæus.


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