Rob the rich roses, though the woodbine lisp)

Dine on my lawn hedged in by limes and laurels.

The “Minora Carmina” of the late C. C. R., whose verse has much of the charm of J. K. S. and C. S. Calverley, contains a few verses anent the pleasure of dining out, which are headed

NUNC EST COENANDUM

Although the season sadly

May open, in contrast grim

With those when pleasure madly

Whirled on the wings of Whim—

Though sporting members sigh for

The huntsman, hound, and horn,