Some he dry-dishes, some moats round with broths,
    Mounts marrow-bones, cuts fifty-angled custards,
    Bears bulwark pies, and for his outerworks
    He raiseth ramparts of immortal crust;
    And teacheth all the tactics at one dinner: 
    What rankes, what files to put his dishes in;
    The whole art military.  Then he knows
    The influence of the stars upon his meats,
    And all their seasons, tempers, qualities;
    And so to fit his relishes and sauces,
    He has Nature in a pot, ’bove all the chemists,
    Or airy brethren of the rosy-cross. 
    He is an architect, an ingineer,
    A soldier, a physician, a philosopher,
    A general mathematician!

]

[Footnote 126:  Sat. iv. 140.]

[Footnote 127:  Miscellaneous Works, vol. v. 504.]

[Footnote 128:  Seneca, Ep. 18.]

[Footnote 129:  Horace, in his dialogue with his slave Davus, exhibits a lively picture of this circumstance.  Lib. ii.  Sat. 7.]

[Footnote 130:  A large volume might be composed on these grotesque, profane, and licentious feasts.  Du Cange notices several under different terms in his Glossary—­Festum Asinorum, Kaleudae, Cervula.  A curious collection has been made by the Abbe Artigny, in the fourth and seventh volumes of his “Memoires d’Histoire,” &c.  Du Radier, in his “Recreations Historiques,” vol. i. p. 109, has noticed several writers on the subject, and preserves one on the hunting of a man, called Adam, from Ash-Wednesday to Holy-Thursday, and treating him with a good supper at night, peculiar to a town in Saxony.  See “Ancillon’s Melange Critique,” &c., i. 39, where the passage from Raphael de Volterra is found at length.  In my learned friend Mr. Turner’s second volume of his “History of England,” p. 367, will be found a copious and a curious note on this subject.]

[Footnote 131:  Thiers.  Traite des Jeux, p. 449.  The fete Dieu in this city of Aix, established by the famous Rene d’Anjou, the Troubadour king, was re markable for the absurd mixture of the sacred and profane.  There is a curious little volume devoted to an explanation of those grotesque ceremonies, with engravings.  It was printed at Aix in 1777.]

[Footnote 132:  The custom is now abolished.]

[Footnote 133:  Selden’s “Table Talk.”]

[Footnote 134:  It may save the trouble of a reference to give here a condensation of Stubbes’ narrative.  He says that the Lord of Misrule, on being selected takes twenty to sixty others “lyke hymself” to act as his guard, who are decorated with ribbons, scarfs, and bells on their legs.  “Thus, all things set in order, they have their hobby-horses, their dragons, and other antiques, together with their gaudie pipers, and thunderyng drummers, to strike up the devill’s dance withal.”  So they march to the church, invading it, even though service be performing, “with such a confused