Classic Poem

I MAY have asked you here to dine,
But that was late at night,
And none of us had spared the wine
If I remember right.
You thought the invitation meant,
Though wine obscured my wit!
And — O most parlous precedent —
You made a note of it!
The maxim that in Greece was true
Is true in Rome to-day —
" I hate a fellow-toper who
Remembers what I say."