A Good Wedding Cake

                                                       Ingredients

4 lb of love

1/2 lb of good looks

1 lb of sweet temper

1 lb butter of youth

1 lb blindness of faults

1 lb of pounded wit

1 lb of good humour

2 tablespoons of sweet argument

1 pint of rippling laughter

1 wine glass of common sense

Dash of modesty

Method

1) Put the love, good looks and sweet temper into a well- furnished house.

2) Beat the butter of youth to a cream. and mix well together with the blindness of faults.

3) Stir the pounded wit and good humour into sweet arguments, then add the rippling laughter and common
     sense.

4) Add a dash of modesty and work the whole together until everything is well mixed.

5) Bake gently for ever.