360 FISHES AND FISHING. 



Some persons add cinnamon to the spices pre- 

 viously mentioned, others dislike it. 



This sauce will he found superior to that of the 

 famed Hervey, who, more than fifty years ago, kept 

 an inn at ^edfont, commanding a view of the church- 

 yard, where, it is said, the Rev. James Hervey, who 

 wrote '^Meditations on the Tomhs,''^ was buried. 



Colman, in his " Random Readings," has the fol- 

 lowing : 



" Hervey, whose Inn commands a view 

 Of Bedfont's church and churchyard too, 

 Where yew trees into peacocks shorn. 

 In vegetable torture mourn, — 

 Is hable no doubt to glooms. 

 From ' Meditations on the Tombs : ' 

 But while he meditates, he cooks ; 

 Thus both to quick and dead he looks ; 

 Turning his mind to nothing, save 

 Thoughts on man's gravy, and his grave. 

 Long may he keep from churchyard holes 

 Our bodies with his sauce for soles ! 

 liOng may he hinder Death from beckoning 

 His guests to settle their last reckoning." 



Another, from an unknown hand, appeared more 

 recently in a periodical. 



" Two Herveys had a mutual wish 

 To shine in different stations ; 

 The one invented sauce for fish, 

 The other Meditations ! 



