1. He fed me an egg, and after
I tasted it, he handed me a cup.

2. "Dear nephew," he said, "which voice
Do you wish for? I see you are suggesting."

3. "Broiled," I joked, "and crunchy fried,
If that suggestion's allowed, or right."

4. At that he was enraged, filled with wrath,
Though drunk, overflowing, he was lucid.

5. "I jested," I said. "I've seen a freeman jest the same,"
He said. That's how I saw a joke taken.