Lorenzo De Lardy

DALILAH DE DARDY adored     The very correctest of cards,     LORENZO DE LARDY, a lord     He was one of Her Majesty's Guards.     DALILAH DE DARDY was fat,     DALILAH DE DARDY was old     (No doubt in the world about that)     But DALILAH DE DARDY had gold.     LORENZO DE LARDY was tall,     The flower of maidenly pets,     Young ladies would love at his call,     But LORENZO DE LARDY had debts.     His money-position was queer,     And one of his favourite freaks     Was to hide himself three times a year,     In Paris, for several weeks.     Many days didn't pass him before     He fanned himself into a flame,     For a beautiful "DAM DU COMPTWORE,"     And this was her singular name:     ALICE EULALIE CORALINE     EUPHROSINE COLOMBINA THERESE     JULIETTE STEPHANIE CELESTINE     CHARLOTTE RUSSE DE LA SAUCE MAYONNAISE.     She booked all the orders and tin,     Accoutred in showy fal-lal,     At a two-fifty Restaurant, in     The glittering Palais Royal.     He'd gaze in her orbit of blue,     Her hand he would tenderly squeeze,     But the words of her tongue that he knew     Were limited strictly to these:     "CORALINE CELESTINE EULALIE,     Houp la! Je vous aime, oui, mossoo,     Combien donnez moi aujourd'hui     Bonjour, Mademoiselle, parlez voo."     MADEMOISELLE DE LA SAUCE MAYONNAISE     Was a witty and beautiful miss,     Extremely correct in her ways,     But her English consisted of this:     "Oh my! pretty man, if you please,     Blom boodin, biftek, currie lamb,     Bouldogue, two franc half, quite ze cheese,     Rosbif, me spik Angleesh, godam."     A waiter, for seasons before,     Had basked in her beautiful gaze,     And burnt to dismember MILOR,     HE LOVED DE LA SAUCE MAYONNAISE.     He said to her, "Mechante THERESE,     Avec desespoir tu m'accables.     Penses-tu, DE LA SAUCE MAYONNAISE,     Ses intentions sont honorables?     "Flirtez toujours, ma belle, si tu oses     Je me vengerai ainsi, ma chere,     Je lui dirai de quoi l'on compose     Vol au vent a la Financiere!"     LORD LARDY knew nothing of this     The waiter's devotion ignored,     But he gazed on the beautiful miss,     And never seemed weary or bored.     The waiter would screw up his nerve,     His fingers he'd snap and he'd dance     And LORD LARDY would smile and observe,     "How strange are the customs of France!"     Well, after delaying a space,     His tradesmen no longer would wait:     Returning to England apace,     He yielded himself to his fate.     LORD LARDY espoused, with a groan,     MISS DARDY'S developing charms,     And agreed to tag on to his own,     Her name and her newly-found arms.     The waiter he knelt at the toes     Of an ugly and thin coryphee,     Who danced in the hindermost rows     At the Theatre des Varietes.     MADEMOISELLE DE LA SAUCE MAYONNAISE     Didn't yield to a gnawing despair     But married a soldier, and plays     As a pretty and pert Vivandiere.