And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care
Turn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare.


Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book viii. Baucis and Philemon, Line 97. - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

John Dryden Quotes

And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care Turn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare.

And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care Turn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare.

And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care Turn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare.

And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care Turn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare.