of Cookery._

BON BONS

"I can teach sugar to slip down your throat a million of
ways."--_Dekker._

JELLY

"Feel, masters, how I shake."--_2nd Henry IV._

PUDDING

"My morning incense and my evening meal the sweets of hasty
pudding."--_Barlow._

ICES

"I always thought cold victuals nice;
My choice would be vanilla ice."

--_Holmes._

FRUIT

"How gladly then he plucks the grafted pear,
Or grape that dims the purple tyrants wear."

--_Horace._

FIGS

"In the name of the prophet, figs!"--_Horace Smith._

CHEESE

"Pray, does anybody here hate cheese? I would be glad of a
bit."--_Swift._

ROQUEFORT

"At which my nose is in great indignation."--_Tempest._

"A last course at dinner without cheese," says Savarin, "is
like a pretty woman with only one eye."

COFFEE

"One sip of this
Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight."--_Milton._

CIGARS

"By Hercules! I do hold it and will affirm it to be the most
sovereign and precious herb that ever the earth tendered to
the use of man.--_B. Jonson._

"The man who smokes thinks like a sage and acts like a
Samaritan."--_Bulwer Lytton._

CIGARETTES

"I never knew tobacco taken as a parenthesis before."--_B.
Jonson._

WINES

"Good, my Lord, you are full of heavenly stuff."--_Henry
VIII._

"I feel the old convivial glow (unaided) o'er me stealing,
The warm champagny, old particular, brandy, punchy feeling."

--_Holmes._

"Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be
well used; exclaim no more against it."--_Othello._

"I pray thee, take the cork out of thy mouth that I may
drink."--_As You Like It._

"This wine should be eaten, it's too good to be
drunk.--_Swift._

"Fill the goblets again, Cnacias. Let us drink the last cup
to the manes of famous Lysander, and then, though
unwillingly, I must warn you of the approach of day. The
host who loves his guests rises from the table when the joy
reaches its climax. The pleasant memory of this untroubled
evening will soon bring you back to this house, whereas you
would be less willing to return if you were forced to think
of the hours of depression which followed your
enjoyment."--_From "An Egyptian Princess."_

TWO PIES

"If you would know the flavor of a pie,
The juicy