The Three Diners.

(A Lay of Temple Bar in its present state, September, 1874.)

Three gourmands invited were into the West,

Out of Cornhill by Lord Fitz-Brown;

They found they’d be late, and they thought it best

From Cheapside to cab it right into Town.

“For men will growl and women will weep,

If waiting for dinner my Lord we keep!”

Near Temple Bar they’re moaning.

They were blocked up in Fleet Street for nigh an hour,