Before ladies.... That's your rather amusing prudishness....)
Well, this Rainuv, then,
A person with a squint like a flash
Of square fishes ... being rather worse than most
Of the usual literati
Said, being carried off by desire of boasting
That he knew all the mid-Victorians
Et ab lor bos amics:
(He thought it was something to boast of.)
We'll say he said he smoked with Tennyson,