CYNICUS. Couldn't be done by genius; nothing so conventional.
ARDILAUN. Me you put outside the pale?
CYNICUS. Oh no; you've your vagaries, though not as to time. How about
the vegetarian diet and distilled water?
ARDILAUN. The simplicity of the philosophers.
CYNICUS. Troublesome to keep going?
ARDILAUN. Not so; my meals are perfect--fit for a king.
CYNICUS. Your wife's recipes, I suppose? Our English cooks are dolts at
vegetable dressing.
ARDILAUN. They are. She superintends--she prefers cookpots to poetry.
That is the hard part of it. Were it Letitia----