'Not at home!' meaning, 'Not in order to see!'
About John Bells, one of whom, we know,
Politicians rung not long ago;
An unlucky Bell, and to-day a wreck,
But fit, even now, to be wrung—by the neck!
About Isabelles, so diverse in kind,
That the one you prefer isn't hard to find;
Yet hard 'tis to be in this all agreed—
Isabelle by name is a belle in-deed!
And thus, as I sat in my easy-chair,