VIII.

Then all the guests rose up, and sighed good-bye!

So let them:—thou thyself art still a Host!

Dibdin—Cornaro—Newton—Mrs. Fry!

Mrs. Glasse, Mr. Spec!—Lovelass—and Weber,

Matthews in Quot'em—Moore's fire-worshipping Gheber—

Thrice-worthy Worthy, seem by thee engross'd!

Howbeit the Peptic Cook still rules the roast,

Potent to hush all ventriloquial snarling,—

And ease the bosom pangs of indigestion!