Yet, let the goddess smile or frown,
Bread we shall eat, or white or brown;
And in a cottage or a court
Drink fine Champagne or muddled Port.’[310]
There were many, no doubt, ready to emulate the hero of one of his minor pieces, and
‘from this world to retreat
As full of Champagne as an egg’s full of meat.’[311]
Shenstone gives expression to much the same sentiment as Prior when he found ‘his warmest welcome at an inn,’ and wrote on the window-pane at Henley:
‘’Tis here with boundless power I reign,
And every health which I begin