I'd swear they were translated out of Dutch.

Fain would I know what diet thou dost keep,

If thou dost always, or dost never sleep?

Sure hasty-pudding is thy chiefest dish,

With bullock's liver, or some stinking fish:

Garbage, ox-cheeks, and tripes, do feast thy brain,

Which nobly pays this tribute back again.

With daisy-roots thy dwarfish Muse is fed,

A giant's body with a pigmy's head.

Canst thou not find, among thy numerous race