%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> A Strange Banquet; / OR, / The Devils Entertainment by Cook Laurel, at the / Peak in Devonshire; with a true Relation of the several Dishes. Jonson, Ben University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1681-1684 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/10/2008 21945

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4.284 R188352 1 Cook Laurel Cook Lorrel Cook Laurel Cook Laurel would have the Devil his guest / And bid him home to Peak to Dinner, with a hey down, down an a down. author noted by Wing as the author from whose song this ballad is expanded Pepys 4.284 Wing J1014[A] Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 4: 284 A Strange Banquet; / OR, / The Devils Entertainment by Cook Laurel, at the / Peak in Devonshire; with a true Relation of the several Dishes. A Strange Banquet; OR, The Devils Entertainment by Cook Laurel, at the Peak in Devonshire; with a true Relation of the several Dishes. A Strange Banquet; or, the Devil's Entertainment by Cook Laurel, at the Peak in Devonshire; with a True Relation of the Several Dishes. Jonson, Ben 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 187 x 327 cropped top and bottom edge, torn bottom right corner, creased surface 1681-1684 Printed for J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, / and T. Passinger. J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, T. Passinger Blagden

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Cook Laurel would have the Devil his guest And bid him home to Peak to Dinner, Where Fiend had never such a feast Prepared at the charge of a Sinner. with a hey down, down an a down. His stomach was quesie, he came thither coacht The joggings had caused his cruets to rise, To help which, he call'd for a Puritan poacht That used to turn up the white of his eyes. with a hey, etc. And so he recovered unto his wish, He sat him down and began to eat: A Promooter in plum broth was the first dish His own Privy-Kitchen had no such meat. with a hey, etc. Yet though with this he was much taken, Upon a sudden he shifted his Trencher, As soon as he spied the Bawd and Bacon, By that it is plain the Devil's a wencher. with a hey, etc.
Six pickled Taylors sliced and cut, With semsters & tire-women fit for his pallet With Feathermen and Perfumers put Some 12 in a charger to make a grand sallet. with a hey, etc. A rich fat Usurer stew'd in his marrow, With him a Lawyers head and green sawce; All which his belly took like a barrel, As though till then he had never seen sawce. with a hey, etc. Then carbonado'd and cookt with pains, Was brought up a Cloven Serjeants face, The sawce was made of a Yeomans brains That had been beaten out with his Mace. with a hey, etc. 2 roasted Sherrifs came whole to the board, The feast had nothing been without 'em, Both living and dead were foxed and fur'd, & their chains like sassages hung about 'em with a hey, etc.
The next dish was the Mayor of the town, With a pudding of maintenance put in's belly, Like a Goose in her feathers in his gown, With a couple of hinch-boys boild to a jelly with a hey, etc. Next came the over-worn Justice of Peace, with Clerks like gizards stuck under each arm & warrants like sipits lay in his own grease Set over a Chaffing-dish to be kept warm. with a hey, etc. A London Cuckold came hot from the spit, And when the Carver had broken him open, The Devil chopt his head off at a bit, But the horns had almost like to choak him. with a hey, etc. A fair large Pasty of a Midwife hot, And for cold bak'd meat in this story, A reverend painted Lady was brought, Long Coffin'd in crust till now she's grown hoary. with a hey, etc. The loins of a Letcher then was roasted, With a plump Harlots head and Garlick, With a Panders Peti-toes that had boasted, Himself for a Capt. that never was warlick. with a hey, etc.
Then boiled and stuck upon a prick, The Gizzard was brought of a holy sister, That bit made the Devil almost so sick, That the Dr. did think he had need of a glister with a hey, etc. The Jowl of a Jaylor served for a Fish, A Constable sowc'd, pist Vinegar by, Two Aldermen-Lobsters laid in a dish, A Deputy-Tart, and a Church-warden Pye. with a hey, etc. All which devoured, then for a close, He did for a draught of Derby call; He heaved the vessel up to his nose, And never left till he had drank up all. with a hey, etc. Then from the Table he gave a start, Where banquet and wine was not to seek, All which he blew away with a fart, & so 'tis call'd the Devils arse in the Peak. with a hey down, down a down down.
FINIS.
Printed for J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger.