The beak of snipe or woodcock counterfeit,

Farewell! your knavish occupation’s gone.

Punch, December, 1849.


O Evans!
Middle-aged Man about Town loq.:—

Farewell the quiet chop! the kidneys poached!

Farewell the grizzled bones and the mixed drinks,

That made abstention virtue—O, farewell!

Farewell the ready waiter, the vague bill,

The nose-enlivening pinch, eye-winking smoke,