The basis for one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s best rhymes! This gentleman is seen with a maid of seventeen A-taking of his dolce far niente And wonders he’d achi

The basis for one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s best rhymes! This gentleman is seen with a maid of seventeen A-taking of his dolce far niente And wonders he’d achieve, for he asks us to believe She’s his mother, and he’s nearly five-and-twenty! — Iolanthe