Fancy Bread

[RiverNotch]

I accept your apology, not for the verse, which was fun, but for rhyming "nourished" with "bread" and "stead" -- or at least that's how I read it.

Ah - no, it's a spoof of 'Tell me where is fancy bred' from the Merchant of Venice!
the last strophe is an allusion to another poem, 'It was a lover and his lass' - from Love's Labour's Lost

See, it still hurts (it always does -- I would smack all the poets of their time for it, if I had the chance) and having read the Merchant of Venice a bunch of times now, it only hurts even more that I didn't notice that.