A Lord Dines
A lord dines with an elderly duchess one evening. Next day a friend asks him if he enjoyed himself. ‘Well,’ says the lord. ‘If the melon had been as cold as the soup, and the soup had been as warm as the wine, and the wine had been as old as the chicken, and if the chicken had been as young as the maid, and the maid had been as willing as the duchess then, yes, I would have had a very good time indeed.’