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To chuse your Baker, think, and think again
(You'll scarce One Honest Baker find in Ten:)
Adust and bruis'd, I've often seen a Pye,
In Rich Disguise and Costly Ruin lie,
While pensive Crust beheld its Form o'erthrown,
Exhausted Apples griev'd, their Moisture flown,
And Syrup from the Sides ran trickling down.
(You'll scarce One Honest Baker find in Ten:)
Adust and bruis'd, I've often seen a Pye,
In Rich Disguise and Costly Ruin lie,
While pensive Crust beheld its Form o'erthrown,
Exhausted Apples griev'd, their Moisture flown,
And Syrup from the Sides ran trickling down.
O be not, be not tempted, Lovely Nell,
While the hot-piping Odours strongly smell,
While the delicious Fume creates a Gust,
To lick th' o'erflowing Juice, or bite the Crust.
You'll rather stay (if my Advice may Rule)
Until the Hot's corrected by the Cool;
'Till you've infus'd the luscious Store of Cream,
And chang'd the Purple, for a Silver Stream;
While the hot-piping Odours strongly smell,
While the delicious Fume creates a Gust,
To lick th' o'erflowing Juice, or bite the Crust.
You'll rather stay (if my Advice may Rule)
Until the Hot's corrected by the Cool;
'Till you've infus'd the luscious Store of Cream,
And chang'd the Purple, for a Silver Stream;
'Till