Who looks just like a peruk’d old lady.

From the Spanish poet, José Morell we include two quotations.

ADVICE TO AN INNKEEPER

“‘Mingle the sweet and useful,’ says a sage,

Whose name, perchance, is lost in history’s page,

But whose advice withal is good and wise.

It caught a tavern-keeper’s busy eyes,

And he exclaimed, ‘Delightful! That’s for me!’

I see the sense, I read the mystery;

This is its meaning, I can well divine: