Book 7
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And the cook in the Younger Philemon wishes to be a sort of tutor, and speaks in this fashion— There, let things be as they are. Only take care The fire may not too small be or too slow To roast the joints. (As a fire like that Makes meat not roast but sodden.) Nor too fierce. (For that again does burn whate'er it catches, And yet is far from cooking the meat through.) It is not every one who has a spoon And knife about him that we call a cook, Nor every one who puts his fish in a pan; There is more wit and reason in the business.
