Thanks! One of the best 'eat, drink and be merry' passages ever, no less - and I love both the Thom Gunn poem and (of course) the Sayers novel that take their titles from it. Am sitting with a glass of wine beside me, so will raise it to Shakespeare, Antony, Cleopatra (if they will allow it, since one Dolabella's relationship w Antony was distinctly acrimonious and another's, according to Dryden at least, was problematic) and your good self not least.

Bard, eh? That's, well, different! At least it was only going to be a middle name...