The Culinary Art in gingerbread—

The Kitchen's Eaten Grammar!

IV.

Oh, very pleasant is thy motley page—

Aye, very pleasant in its chatty vein—

So—in a kitchen—would have talk'd Montaigne,

That merry Gascon—humorist, and sage!

Let slender minds with single themes engage,

Like Mr. Bowles with his eternal Pope,—

Or Haydon on perpetual Haydon,—or