After eating a few morsels I looked at the sherry: "I may as well take a glass," said I.

So with a wry face I poured myself out a glass.
"What detestable stuff!" said I, after I had drunk it.

"However, as I shall have to pay for it I may as well go through with it." So I poured myself out another glass, and by the time I had finished the chop I had finished the sherry also.
And now what was I to do next?
Why, my best advice seemed to be to pay my bill and depart.

But I had promised the poet to patronize his house, and had by mistake ordered and despatched a pint and chop in a house which was not the poet's.

Should I now go to his house and order a pint and chop there?
Decidedly not! I had patronised a house which I believed to be the poet's; if I patronised the wrong one, the fault was his, not mine--he should have been more explicit.