Who swore that Frenchmen never could be eager
For fighting on soup meagre—
"And yet (as thou wouldst add) the French have seen
A Marshal Tureen!"
VII.
Great was thy evening cluster!—often grac'd
With Dollond—Burgess—and Sir Humphry Davy!
'Twas there M'Dermot first inclin'd to taste,—
There Colburn learn'd the art of making paste
For puffs—and Accum analysed a gravy.