...court-gluttony, Their thirty-pound butter'd eggs, their pies of carps' tongues, Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris, the carcases Of three fat wethers...their feasts Were fasts, compared with the city's. Trade. What dear dainty Was it, thou murmur'st at? Hold. Did you not observe it ? There were three...

...butter'd eggs, their pies of carps' tongues ; Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris; the carcates of three fat wethers bruised for gravy to make sauce for a single peacock.' ties assigned them, however eccentric. They had an old fashioned look; having, for the most part, been...

...Christmasses, Their thirty pound butter'd eggs, their pies of carps' tongues : Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris ; the carcases of three fat wethers...bruised for gravy to make sauce for a single peacock ! readers, who may not have that foolish fondness for odd and obsolete things to which I am a little...

...covnlry-christmatfa— Their thirty-pound butter'd eggs, their pie* of carp's tongues, Their pheasant's clrcnch'd with ambergris, the carcases Of three fat wethers...their feasts Were fasts, compared with the city's." It was the custom in the houses of the countrv-gcntleinen to retire after gone. Her former conductor...

...carps' tongues, Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris, the carcasses Of three fat wethers bruis'd for gravy, to Make sauce for a single peacock; yet their feasts Were fasts, compar'd with the city's. And in " Stevenson's Twelve Months" (1661), under the head December, are...

...carps tongues, Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris, the carcasses Of three fat wethers bruis'd for gravy, to Make sauce for a single peacock , yet their feasts Were fasts, comparM with the city's. And in " Stevenson's Twel vc Months" (1661), under the head December, are...

...carps' tongues, their pheasants drenched with Amber grease, the carcasses of their fat Wethers bruis'd for gravy, to make sauce for A single peacock; yet their feasts were fasts Couipar'd with the city's." The poet then describes the city feast as containing ' three sucking pigs...

...tongues, Their 'pheasants drench'd with ambergris, the carcasses Of three fatwethers bruis'd forgravy, to Make sauce for a single peacock ; yet their feasts Were fasts, compar'd with the city's. his lord, the fifth Earl of Northumber- And in " Stevenson's Twelve Months"...

...butter'd eggs, their pies of carps' tongues, Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris, the carcasses Of three fat wethers bruised for gravy to Make sauce...their feasts Were fasts, compared with the city's. Trade. What dear dainty Was it thou murmur'st at ? Hold. Did you not observe it ? There were three...

...butter'd eggs, their pies of carps' tongues, Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris, the car-. casses Of three fat wethers bruised for gravy to Make sauce...their feasts Were fasts, compared with the city's. Trade. Whnt dear dainty Was it thou murmur'st at ? Hold. Did you not observe it ? There were three...