Meats
Scop. Do you remember the verse of Cato?
Pauca voluptati debentur; plura saluti.75
Give every one a platter of meat with sauce, so that he may swallow it down, and this will warm the intestines and pleasantly wash and so soften the body.
Sim. Here, boy, give me at once some salted pork. Oh! most savoury leg of pork! It is a barrow-hog. If you can hear what I say, return the cabbage and bacon, to the cook, at this season of the year, or preserve it till the winter. Cut me a couple of bits off this sausage, so that the first cup of wine may taste the sweeter.
Crit. Let us follow the advice of physicians that wine be taken with pork. Pour out wine.