'As Helluo, late Dictator of the Feast,
The nose of Hautgout and the Tip of Taste,
Critiqu'd your wine, and analyz'd your meat,
Yet on plain Pudding deigned at home to eat;
So Philomede lecturing all mankind
On the soft passion and the taste refin'd,
The address, the delicacy-stoops at once,
And makes her hearty meal upon a dunce.' —Moral Essays, ii. 79.
'Tradition represents him as willing to descend from the dignity of the poet and statesman to the low delights of mean company.' —Johnson's Life of Prior
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