En flot luisant, jusqu’aux bords.
Quand vous jugez que l’abondance
Peut suffire à votre repas,
Au frais mettez-la par prudence....
Tout est fini; n’y touchez pas!
Under the title of “Women I have never married,” O. S. of “Punch” writes delightfully on the lady who knew too much about eating. This is one of his verses:—
She came. She passed a final word
Upon the bisque, the Mornay sole,
The poulet (said she thought the bird
Shewed at its best en casserole);