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,