A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726): [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727)Carey, Henry
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A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726): [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727)
Carey, Henry
Dumplings -- Humor; Puddings -- Humor; Satire, English
The Author cannot forbear his old Sneer upon
Foreigners, but says, in his 1st Page, "That finding
it a Land of Plenty, they wisely resolved never to go
home again," and in his 2d, "Nay, so zealous are they
in the Cause of _Bacchus_, that one of the Chief among
them, made a Vow never to say his Prayers till he has
a Tavern of his own in every Street in _London_, and
in every Market-Town in _England_:" If he does not
mean Sir J---- T---- I know not who he means.
By the Invention of _Eggs_, Page 4. is meant
Perquisites. "He cannot conclude a Paragraph in his
5th _Page_, without owning he received that important
Part of the History of Pudding, from old Mr.
_Lawrence_ of _Wilsden Green_, the greatest Antiquary
of the present Age."
This old _Lawrence_ is a great Favourite of the D--s;
he is a facetious farmer, of above eighty Years of
Age, now living at _Wilsden Green_, near _Kilburn_ in
_Middlesex_, the most rural Place I ever saw: exactly
like the Wilds of _Ireland_. It was here the
D--n often retired _incog._ to amuse himself with the
Simplicity of the Place and People; where he got
together all that Rigmayroll of Childrens talk, which
composes his _Namby Pamby_. Old _Lawrence_ told me,
the D--n has sate several Hours together to see the
Children play, with the greatest Pleasure in Life: The
rest he learned from the old Nurses thereabouts, of
which there are a great many, with whom he would go
and smoke a Pipe frequently, and cordially; not in
his Clergyman's Habit, but in a black Suit of Cloth
Clothes, and without a Rose in his Hat: Which made
them conclude him to be a Presbyterian Parson.
This Mention of old _Lawrence_, is in Ridicule to a
certain great Artist, who wrote a Treatise upon the
Word _Connoisseur_ (or a Knower) and confesses himself
to have been many Years at a loss for a Word to
express the Action of Knowing, till the great Mr.
_Prior_ gave him Ease, by furnishing him with the Word
_Connoissance_. Our D--n had drawn a Drole, Parallel
to this, _viz._ _Boudineur_, a Pudding Pyeman; and
_Boudinance_, the making of Pudding Pies: But several
Men of Quality begging it off, it was, at their
Request, scratch'd out, but my Friend, the
_Amanuensis_, remembers particularly its being
originally inserted.
If the Reader should ask, Who is that K-- _John_
mentioned in the fourth Page, and which I ought to
have taken in its Place. I beg leave to inform him,
that by K. _John_ is meant the late Q. ----, with whom
the D-- of _M----_ was many Years in such great
Favour, that he was nick named K. _John_; it was in
that Part of the Q--'s Reign, that Sir _John_ Pudding,
by whom is meant **** _you know who_, came in Favour;
it is true, the Name is odd, and seems to carry an Air
of Ridicule with it, but the Character given him by
this allegorical Writer, is that of an able Statesman,
and an honest Man.
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