...reign'd, Did we not count our gains by sea and land; Or view his grandsons round the monarch stand. Tho" the rich pike, to entertain your guest. Smokes on the board and decks a royal feast; Yet must you not this cruel savage place In the same ponds that lodge the finny race : In the same...

...Shore, Take freely from our Hands what we bestow, And grace the royal Streams at FOUNTAINBLEAU. Tho' the rich Pike, to entertain your Guest, Smokes on the board and decks a royal Feast ; Yet must you not this cruel Savage place In the same Ponds that lodge the finny Race : In the same...

...floode,, .nd 1 «n itennge'in the gw«t -i of the See ; wherfore 1 cua* gy^ie ryghtfull "senf Tho' the rich Pike, to entertain your Guest, Smokes on the board and decks a royal Feast ; Yet must you not this cruel Savage place In the same Ponds that lodge the finny Race : In the same...

...with a sort of insatiable fury, his own progeny.* This creature of blood, ravenous in its appe* "Tho1 the rich pike, to entertain your guest, Smokes on the board and decks a royal feast; Yet must you not this cruel savage place In the same ponds that lodge the finny race: In the same tow'r...

...She just surpasses As wine molasses, Or Salmon Pike." Vaniere, however, in his ' Praedium Eusticum,' exactly reverses the dictum — " Lo ! the rich Pike,...figures in the Cartes de diner of most of the grand and Eoyal Banquets of former times, — as, for instance, the feast at the enthronization of George Nevil,...

...She just surpasses As wine molasses, Or Salmon Pike." Vaniere, however, in his ' Praediuni Eusticum,' exactly reverses the dictum — " Lo ! the rich Pike,...entertain your guest, Smokes on the board, and decks a Eoyal feast . . ." an assertion which is perfectly in consonance with the facts of the case, as it...

...food." But Vaniere, in his " Prsedium Kusticum," rehabilitates the river despi>t, in summary fashion. " Lo ! the rich pike, to entertain your guest, Smokes on the board and decks a royal feast." • when simultaneously, and as if moved by a common impulsion, arose a bevy of men, who devoted their...

...food." But Vaniere, in Ms " Prsedium Kusticum," rehabilitates the river despot, in summary fashion. " Lo ! the rich pike, to entertain your guest, Smokes on the board and decks a royal feast." Pliny, in his Natural History, speaks of a freshwater fish, under the name of Emx, but the description...

...pike " figured on all the menus of civic banquets in London and elsewhere for many generations — " Lo ! the rich pike, to entertain your guest, Smokes on the board, and decks a royal feast." In Germany they were once great favourites, but not so now. English taste, generally speaking, has...

...other lasses She just surpasses As wine molasses, Or salmon pike. Vaniere, however, in his 'Praedium Rusticum,' exactly reverses the dictum : Lo ! the...instance, the feast at the enthronisation of George Nevil, Archbishop of York, in 1466 ; the feast given to Richard II. by the celebrated William of Wykeham,...