william king

how to eat:

"Unless some Sweetness at the Bottom lye,
Who cares for all the crinkling of the Pye?

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The child who nightly to the larder skulks
Will grow a Belly of unwieldy Bulk.

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Eat Beef or Pye-crust if you'd serious be.
A Shell-fish'll raise Venus from the Sea.

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Some Sauces act as Friends, and others Foes:
The Roguish Mustard, dang'rous to the Nose.

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May clouds of Pigeons round about thee fly
But condescend sometimes to make a Pye.

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Where Love of Wealth and rusty Coin prevail,
What hopes of sugar'd Cakes or butter'd Ale?

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In private draw your Poultry, clean your Tripe,
And from your Eels their slimy Substance wipe.

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Many a Man who falls out with his Wife
With soft'ning Mead and Cheese-Cake ends the Strife."