Volume 102 — UPON JULIA'S COAT.
Reading edition
(After Herrick.)
LENTEN FASHION.
Sack-Coat, nearest approach to Sackcloth, for Lent.
Whenas my JULIA wears a sack, That hides the outline of her back, I cry, in sore distress, "Alack!" She showed a dainty waist when dressed In jacket; true, the size confessed That whalebone had its shape compressed. Still was her form sweet as her face, But now what change has taken place! This "sack coat" hides all maiden grace. Although men's clothes are always vile, The coat, the trousers and the "tile"! Some sense still lingers in each style. But women's garments should be fair, All graceful, gay and debonair. And if they lack good sense, why care? O JULIA, cease to wear a sack, A garb all artists should attack, In which both sense and beauty lack!
DRINKS AND DRAMAS.
("HENRY THE EIGHTH is a Soda-water Play."—Mr. Irving's Evidence before the Committee.)
Mr. Irving has now completed his list of refreshments suited to performances. They can be obtained, like Mr. GOSCHEN's reserve of shillings, "on application," which does not mean gratis.
Macbeth.—Very fine old Scotch.
Hamlet.—Bitters.
Romeo and Juliet.—Rum and Milk.
Othello.—Dublin Stout.
Merchant of Venice.—Port(1 A.).
Charles the First.—Bottled Ale (with a fine head).
The Cup.—Tea.
Faust.—Ginger Brandy.
Much Ado About Nothing.—Benedictine.
Corsican Brothers.—Half-and-half.