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Our Dean shall be venison, just fresh from the plains;Our Burke shall be tongue, with a garnish of brains;Our Will shall be wild fowl, of excellent flavour,And Dick with his pepper, shall heighten their savour:Our Cumberland's sweet-bread, its place shall obtain,And Douglass's pudding, substantial and plain:Our Garrick's a sallad, for in him we seeOil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree:To make out the dinner, full certain I am,That Ridge is anchovy, and Reynolds is lamb;That Hickey's a capon, and by the same rule,Magnanimous Goldsmith, a goosberry fool:At a dinner so various, at such a repast,Who'd not be a glutton, and stick to the last:

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