Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 6, 1892

DEAR SIR,—I send you this gratis. It is for everybody's benefit,
Yours. GEORGE GUZZLETON, X.M.D.
P.S.—I give Coenæ prescriptionem only, as the Prescrip: prandialis can be taken out of this with variations.
Fiat haust: sec: vel test: quâque horâ: extra horâ coenæ: regulariter sumendum.
Si opus sit : Misce: aq: sodæ .. ʒ1/14.
Misce: ot: grog: h.s.s. Si opus sit aut non.
LITERARY GARDENING.—A Correspondent, signing himself STULTUS IN HORTU OR HORT-U-NOT? writes, Please, Sir, if my boy JOHN plant 'a slip of a pen,' what will it come up? Answer paid —A Jonquill.
Queenly as womanly, those words that start
From sorrow's lip strike home to sorrow's heart.
Madam, our griefs are one;
But yours, from kinship close and your high place,