“On Bansted Down a hare was found,
Which led us all a-smoaking round.”
Not classical English, perhaps, any more than that of the ladies from town who declare in the family circle of the Vicar of Wakefield that they are in a “muck-sweat.”
A set of six plates bear a line of the following inscription on each—
“What is a merry man?
Let him do what he can
To entertain his guests
With wine and merry jests;
But if his wife does frown