Volume 99 — HAMLET AT THE VEGETARIAN CONGRESS.

Yea, from the table of my dining-room, I'll take away all tasty joints and entrées. All sorts of meat, all forms of animal diet That the carnivorous cook hath gathered there: And, by commandment, will entirely live Within the bounds of vegetable food, Unmixed with savoury matters. Yes, by heaven! O most pernicious Meat! O Mutton, beef, and pork, digestion-spoiling! My tables, my tables! Meat? I'll put it down; For men may dine, and dine, and do no killing, At least I'm sure it may be so—on lentils. So, gourmand, there you are! Now to my menu; It is, "All Vegetables and no Meat!" I have sworn't!