CHAPTER XLIV.
The Doctor prepares an Entertainment in the Manner of the Ancients,
which is attended with divers ridiculous Circumstances.
In a word, our young gentleman, by his insinuating behaviour,
acquired the full confidence of the doctor, who invited him to
an entertainment, which he intended to prepare in the manner of
the ancients. Pickle, struck with this idea, eagerly embraced the
proposal, which he honoured with many encomiums, as a plan in all
respects worthy of his genius and apprehension; and the day was
appointed at some distance of time, that the treater might have
leisure to compose certain pickles and confections which were not
to be found among the culinary preparations of these degenerate days.
With a view of rendering the physician's taste more conspicuous,
and extracting from it the more diversion, Peregrine proposed that
some foreigners should partake of the banquet; and the task being
left to his care and discretion, he actually bespoke the company
of a French marquis, an Italian count, and a German baron, whom he
knew to be egregious coxcombs, and therefore more likely to enhance
the joy of the entertainment.
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