Classic Poem

Though the name of this place may make you to frown,
Your Deanship is welcome to Glass ne vin town;
A glass and no wine, to a man of your taste,
Alas! is enough to break it in haste.
Be that as it will, your presence can't fail
To yield great delight in drinking our ale;
Would you but vouchsafe a mug to partake,
And, as we can brew, believe we can bake.
The life and the pleasure we now from you hope,
The famed Violante can't show on the rope;
[Your genius and talen]ts outdo even Pope.
[Then while, Sir, you live] at Glasnevin and find
The benefit wished you by friends who are kind,
One night in the week your favor bestow
To drink with Delany and others you know:
They constantly meet at Peg Ratcliff's together,
Talk over the news of the town and the weather,
Reflect on mishaps in church and in state,
Digest many things as well as good meat,
And club each alike, that no one may treat.
This, if you will grant, without coach or a chair,
You may in a trice cross the way and be there;
For Peg is your neighbor, as well as Delany,
[An] housewifely woman, full pleasing to many.