"Severely criticised by their political opponents for neglecting their official duties, it was said that they had no thought but to live out their days in rural retirement."
Friday, March 2, 2018
Happiness is mutton chops
Old Cross condemns all persons to be fops,
That can't regale themselves with mutton chops.
-- William King, The Art of Cookery, in imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry (Humbly inscrib'd to the Honourable Beef Steak Club), 1708
