Instead of sitting wrapped up in flannel <br />With rheumatism in every joint, <br />I wish I was in the English Channel, <br />Just going 'round the Lizard Point <br />All southward bound, with the seas before me, <br />I should not care whether smooth or rough, <br />For then no visitors would call to bore me, <br />Of whose 'good-mornings' I have had enough.<br /><br />Thomas Love Peacock<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/instead-of-sitting-wrapped-up-in-flannel/
