<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457100" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Extempore Invitation To The Earl Of Oxford, Lord High Treasurer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My Lord,<br>Our weekly friends to-morrow meet<br>At Matthew's palace in Duke-street,<br>To try for once if they can dine <br>On bacon-ham and mutton-chine.<br>If, wearied with the great affairs<br>Which Britain trusts to Harley's cares,<br>Thou, humble statesman, may'st descend<br>Thy mind one moment to unbend,<br>To see thy servant from his soul<br>Crown with thy health the sprightly bowl,<br>Among the guests, which e'er my house<br>Received it never can produce<br>Of honour a more glorious proof -<br>Though Dorset used to bless the roof.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Prior">Matthew Prior</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457100" data-title="An Extempore Invitation To The Earl Of Oxford, Lord High Treasurer de Matthew Prior" data-description="My Lord, Our weekly friends to-morrow meet At Matthew's palace in Duke-street, To try for once if they can dine On bacon-ham and mutton-chine. If, wearied with the great affairs Which Britain trusts to Harley's cares, Thou, humble statesman, may'..."></div> </div> </div>

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