There’s never a goddess a hunting to-day,” &c.
(see Appendix to Westminster Drollery, p. liv.) Our readers may thus additionally enjoy a full-flavoured bumper of the “Antidote against Melancholy.”
J. W. E.
August, 1875.
To the Reader.
There’s no Purge ’gainst Melancholly,
But with Bacchus to be jolly:
All else are but Dreggs of Folly.