To teach my fellow-slaves the self-same way.
—“This is too salt.—This is burnt up too much.
That is not nice and cleanly.—That’s well done.
Mind, and do so again.”—I spare no pains,
And give them the best precepts that I can.
In short, I bid them look into the dishes,
As in a mirror, Demea, and thence learn
The duty of a cook.—This school of ours,
I own, is idle: but what can you do?
According to the man must be the lesson.