The book of The Cheese

by Unknown

For still the “glorious phantom” flees.

Ah well! no phantom are the ale

And beefsteaks of the “Cheshire Cheese.”

Envoi.

If doubts or debts thy soul assail,

If Fashion’s forms its current freeze,

Try a long pipe, a glass of ale,

And supper at the “Cheshire Cheese.”

“THE 49 CLUB.”

This is a more recent club which met at the “Cheese” to partake, as their “Chronicle” has it, of “a curious mysterie