And the Round Table had grown rickety,
Said unto Merlin (who had been asleep
For a few centuries in Broceliande,
But woke, and had a bath, and felt refreshed):
“What shall I do to pull myself together?”
Quoth Merlin, “Salad is the very thing,
And you can get it at the Cheshire Cheese”
King Arthur went there; verily, I believe
That he has dined there every day since then.
Have you not marked the portly gentleman