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“Pinguem, nitidumque Bene curatâ cute.”
(I may add bene curandâ, as the bacon that is to be cannot possibly hear), and so serenely dignified in its complete repose, so “mildly majestical,” that one almost expected to see a point-lace nightcap, and fair girls fanning away the flies! He looked as happy as Gryllus, that companion of Ulysses, who, being transformed into a pig by Circe, and, being subsequently offered redintegration, preferred the swinish estate; huge and handsome as the famous boar, who ate the Reverend Mr. Haydn, after the victory of the rebels at Enniscorihy; 1 obese and sleepy, as Silenus, when found by the shepherds, Chromis and Mnasylus; 2 refreshed and comfortable, like that great O'Neill, who (Camden says so) was wont to plunge himself into the mire, as a cooler and restorative, after great excess.
1 Sir Jonah Barrington's Personal Sketches, vol. iii., p. 422.
2 Virgil. Edogue vi. 13.
