(You’re a stupid young owl, and you won’t learn to wait,
You’re always too slow, or too fast);
I’ll just have two chops, underdone, if you please,
Some stout in the pewter, a tin of stewed cheese,
Then some port, wherein flutter the wings of the bees,
Will make up my modest repast.
Shirley Brooks, 1859.
Mr. Shirley Brooks wrote many other humorous translations of Horace, which will be found in his Wit and Humour. London, Bradbury & Co. 1883.
On the Commencement of Term.