As the Greeks gape at women heaped up in selfslaughter, / They hear of Aeneas's flight with the loot. Referencing events from the second act of Berlioz's Les Troyens.

Practice and whipping were alike unavailing, and Epps, satisfied of it at last, swore I was a disgrace—that I was not fit to associate with a cotton-picking nigger—that I could not pick enough in a day to pay the trouble of weighing it, and that I should go into the cotton field no more.

Sir John [Suckling] threw his repartees about the table with much sparkliness, and gentileness of wit, to the admiration of them all.

And he that can rear up a pig in his house, / Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse.