And with thy sparkling Xerez
Let us have Ceres.
Of loaf thou hast no lack,
Nor set, like Shakespeare’s zany, forth,
With lots of sack,
Of bread one pennyworth.
IV.
Sprightly, and yet sagacious,
Funny, yet farinaceous,
Dashing, and yet methodical—
And with thy sparkling Xerez
Let us have Ceres.
Of loaf thou hast no lack,
Nor set, like Shakespeare’s zany, forth,
With lots of sack,
Of bread one pennyworth.
IV.
Sprightly, and yet sagacious,
Funny, yet farinaceous,
Dashing, and yet methodical—