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 Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a 
porpoise.  
 Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a 
porpoise. 
I almost die for food, and let me have it!
I almost die for food, and let me have it!
 "Good, well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow,--
 It almost makes me wish, I vow,
  To have two stomachs, read more 
 "Good, well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow,--
 It almost makes me wish, I vow,
  To have two stomachs, like a cow!"
   And lo! as with the cud, an inward thrill
    Upheaved his waistcoat and disturb'd his frill,
     His mouth was oozing, and he work'd his jaw--
      "I almost that that I could eat one raw." 
 If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest 
delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.  
 If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest 
delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds. 
 Yet shall you have to rectify your palate,
 An olive, capers, or some better salad
  Ushering the read more 
 Yet shall you have to rectify your palate,
 An olive, capers, or some better salad
  Ushering the mutton; with a short-legged hen,
   If we can get her, full of eggs, and then,
    Limons, and wine for sauce: to these a coney
     Is not to be despaired of for our money;
      And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks,
       The sky not falling, think we may have larks. 
 For, as a surfeit of the sweetest things
 The deepest loathing to the stomach brings,
  Or as read more 
 For, as a surfeit of the sweetest things
 The deepest loathing to the stomach brings,
  Or as the heresies that men do leave
   Are hated most of those they did deceive,
    So thou, my surfeit and my heresy,
     Of all be hated, but the most of me! 
 One solid dish his week-day meal affords,
 An added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's.  
 One solid dish his week-day meal affords,
 An added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's. 
 See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In 
amazement you will exclaim: Where could this read more 
 See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In 
amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow? 
Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.
Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.