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
And here, begging Mr. D--n's Pardon, I cannot but
think his Wit has out run his Judgment; for he puts
the Cart before the Horse, and begins at the latter
Part of Sir **** Administration: But this might be
owing to too plentiful a Dinner, and too much of the
Creature. Be that as it will, I must follow my Copy,
and explain it as it lies. Proceed we therefore to the
Dissertation, _Page 6._
"But what rais'd our Hero most in the Esteem of this
Pudding-eating Monarch, was his second Edition of
Pudding, he being the first that ever invented the Art
of broiling Puddings, which he did to such Perfection,
and so much to the King's liking (who had a mortal
Aversion to cold Pudding) that he thereupon instituted
him Knight of the Gridiron, and gave him a Gridiron of
Gold, the Ensign of that Order; which he always wore
as a Mark of his Sovereign's Favour."
If this does not mean the late Revival of an ancient
Order of Knighthood, I never will unriddle Mystery
more: To prove which, we need but cross over to the
next Page, where he tells us, "Sir _John_ had always a
Squire, who followed him, bearing a huge Pair of
Spectacles to saddle his Honour's Nose." _Diss.
Page 7._
After this, he very severely runs upon those would-be
Statesmen, who put themselves in Competition with his
Favourite, Sir ****, with whom he became exceeding
intimate, and almost inseperable, all the Time he was
in _England_.
The Story of the Kit Cat Club, _Dick Estcourt_, and
_Jacob Tonson_, is a mere Digression; and nothing more
to the Purpose, than that we may imagine it came
uppermost. He returns to his Subject in his 9th
_Page_.
"Now it was Sir _John_'s Method, every _Sunday_
Morning, to give the Courtiers a Breakfast; which
Breakfast was every Man his Dumpling, and Cup of Wine:
For you must know, he was Yeoman of the Wine-Cellar at
the same Time."
The Breakfast is Sir *** Levee, the Yeomanship of the
Wine-Cellar, is the ***.
The Author of the Dissertation, is a very bad
Chronologist; for at _Page_ 10. we are obliged to go
back to the former Reign, where we shall find the
lubberly Abbots (_i.e._) the High Church Priests,
misrepresenting Sir _John_'s Actions, and never let
the Q---- alone, till poor Sir _John_ was discarded.
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