Hi all,

For the spring in it's glory has come back again,
To the banks of the Reedy Lagoon.

Was singing this song to myself (it's a beautiful morning here in Dublin) when I came to the line that goes; "a Benedict's life to enjoy" and I thought what does that mean? I consulted my copy of The Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary, but alas no mention of a Benedict and no explanation in Lionel Long's -Favourite Australian Bush Songs- from which I learned the song when residing in Sydney almost forty years ago. So my question is, what does "a Benedict's life to enjoy" actually mean?

Fergus