- [left]: Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger: Catherine Killigrew, Lady Jermyn (1614)
- [center]: Henry Holiday: Segment (in mirror view) from an illustration to Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark (1876)
- [right]: Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger: Mary Throckmorton, Lady Scudamore (1615)
057 He came as a Butcher: but gravely declared,
058 When the ship had been sailing a week,
059 He could only kill Beavers. The Bellman looked scared,
060 And was almost too frightened to speak:
285 But the Butcher turned nervous, and dressed himself fine,
286 With yellow kid gloves and a ruff–
287 Said he felt it exactly like going to dine,
288 Which the Bellman declared was all “stuff.”
409 Such friends, as the Beaver and Butcher became,
410 Have seldom if ever been known;
411 In winter or summer, ’twas always the same–
412 You could never meet either alone.
2017-09-13, update: 2023-10-04