Recipe For A Parson:

To a cupful of negative goodness
    Add the pleasure of giving advice.
Sift in a peck of dry sermons,
    And flavor with brimstone or ice.

    - Life.

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Nursery Rhyme. DIX. Natural History.

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Nursery Rhyme. DCXXIX. Relics.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCXXXI. Jingles.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCXCI. Love And Matrimony.

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In Imitation Of Dr. Swift : The Happy Life Of A Country Parson

Parson, these things in thy possessing
Are better than the Bishop's blessing.
A Wife that makes conserves; a Steed
That carries double when there's need:
October store, and best Virginia,
Tithe-Pig, and mortuary Guinea:
Gazettes sent gratis down, and frank'd,
For which thy Patron's weekly thank'd;
A large Concordance, bound long since:
Sermons to Charles the First, when Prince;
A Chronicle of ancient standing;
A Chrysostom to smooth thy band in.
The Polygot  three parts,  my text,
Howbeit,  likewise  now to my next.
Lo here the Septuagint,  and Paul,
To sum the whole,  the close of all.
He that has these, may pass his life,
Drink with the 'Squire, and kiss his wife;
On Sundays preach, and eat his fill;
And fast on Fridays  if he will;

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Recipe For An Editor:

Take a personal hatred of authors,
    Mix this with a fiendish delight
In refusing all efforts of genius
    And maiming all poets on sight.

    - Life.

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Recipe For A Multi-Millionaire:

Take a boy with bare feet as a starter
    Add thrift and sobriety, mixed -
Flavor with quarts of religion,
    And see that the tariff is fixed.

    - Life.

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Hom[oe]Opathic Soup

    Take a robin's leg
(Mind, the drumstick merely);
    Put it in a tub
Filled with water nearly;
    Set it out of doors,
In a place that's shady;
    Let it stand a week
(Three days if for a lady);
    Drop a spoonful of it
In a five-pail kettle,
    Which may be made of tin
Or any baser metal;
    Fill the kettle up,
Set it on a boiling,
    Strain the liquor well,
To prevent its oiling;
    One atom add of salt,
For the thickening one rice kernel,
    And use to light the fire
"The Hom[oe]opathic Journal."
    Let the liquor boil
Half an hour, no longer,
    (If 'tis for a man
Of course you'll make it stronger).
    Should you now desire
That the soup be flavoury,
    Stir it once around,
With a stalk...

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The Parson's Case

That you, friend Marcus, like a stoic,
Can wish to die in strains heroic,
No real fortitude implies:
Yet, all must own, thy wish is wise.
Thy curate's place, thy fruitful wife,
Thy busy, drudging scene of life,
Thy insolent, illiterate vicar,
Thy want of all-consoling liquor,
Thy threadbare gown, thy cassock rent,
Thy credit sunk, thy money spent,
Thy week made up of fasting-days,
Thy grate unconscious of a blaze,
And to complete thy other curses,
The quarterly demands of nurses,
Are ills you wisely wish to leave,
And fly for refuge to the grave;
And, O, what virtue you express,
In wishing such afflictions less!
    But, now, should Fortune shift the scene,
And make thy curateship a dean:
Or some rich benefice provide,
To pamper luxury...

Jonathan Swift

Recipe For A Waiter:

Stuff a hired dress-suit case with an effort to please,
    Add a half-dozen stumbles and trips;
Remove his right thumb from the cranberry sauce,
    Roll in crumbs, melted butter and tips.

    - Life.

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