Was to be curs'd with a purloining cook.

(A fellow, who 'twas plain

Play'd "cut and come again,"

And scarcely reck'd, if all was seen he took.)

Don John de Ayala, went forth to look

For birds, and shot a crane;

Which, forthwith giving the aforesaid knave

To cook, according to the Spanish taste;

He, to his dainty-loving sposa gave

A leg at once, well deeming, that to waste