He thought his master’s stomach was in danger,
But still in the same tone replied the Knight,
“Go down, John, go, I have no appetite;
Say I’m engaged with a celestial stranger.”—
Quoth John, not much au fait in such affairs,
“Wouldn’t the stranger take a bit down stairs?”
“No,” said the master, smiling, and no wonder,
At such a blunder,
“The stranger is not quite the thing you think,
He wants no meat or drink,