Then all the guests rose up, and sighed good-bye! So let them:--thou thyself art still a _Host_! Dibdin--Cornaro--Newton--Mrs. Fry! Mrs. Glasse--Mr. Spec!--Lovelass--and Weber, Mathews in Quotem--Moore's fire-worshipping Gheber-- Thrice-worthy worthy! seem by thee engross'd! Howbeit the peptic cook still rules the roast, Potent to hush all ventriloquial snarling,-- And ease the bosom pangs of indigestion! Thou art, sans question, The Corporation's love--its Doctor _Darling_! Look at the civic palate--nay, the bed Which set dear Mrs. Opie on supplying "Illustrations of _Lying!"_ Ninety square feet of down from heel to head It measured, and I dread Was haunted by a terrible night _Mare_, A monstrous burthen on the corporation!-- Look at the bill of fare, for one day's share, Sea-turtles by the score--oxen by droves, Geese, turkeys, by the flock--fishes and loaves Countless, as when the Lilliputian nation Was making up the huge man-mountain's ration! IX. Oh! worthy Doctor! surely thou hast driven The squatting demon from great Garratt's breast-- (His honour seems to rest!--) And what is thy reward?--Hath London given Thee public thanks for thy important service? Alas! not even The tokens it bestow'd on Howe and Jervis!-- Yet could I speak as orators should speak Before the worshipful the Common Council (Utter my bold bad grammar and pronounce ill), Thou shouldst not miss thy freedom, for a week, Richly engross'd on vellum:--Reason urges That he who rules our cookery--that he Who edits soups and gravies, ought to be A _Citizen_, where sauce can make a _Burgess_! THE END. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 218: Captain Kater, the Moon's Surveyor.] [Footnote 219: The Doctor's composition for a _nightcap_.] PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. LONDON AND EDINBURGH ROUTLEDGE'S EXCELSIOR SERIES OF STANDARD AUTHORS, Without Abridgment, Crown 8vo, 2s. each, in cloth. 1 The Wide, Wide World, by Miss Wetherell. 2 Melbourne House, by Miss Wetherell. 3 The Lamplighter, by Miss Cummins. 4 Stepping Heavenward, and Aunt Jane's Hero, by E. Prentiss. 5 Queechy, by Miss Wetherell. 6 Ellen Montgomery's Bookshelf, by Miss Wetherell. 7 The Two School Girls, and other Tales, illustrating the Beatitudes, by Miss Wetherell. 8 Helen, by Maria Edgeworth. 9 The Old Helmet, by Miss Wetherell. 10 Mabel Vaughan, by Miss Cummins. 11 The Glen Luna Family, or Speculation, by Miss Wetherell. 12 The Word, or Walks from Eden, by Miss Wetherell. 13 Alone, by Marion Harland. 14 The Lofty and Lowly, by Miss M'Intosh. 15 Prince of the House of David, by Rev. J. H. Ingraham. 16 Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Mrs. Stowe, with a Preface by the Earl of Carlisle.