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| ‘TERENCE, this is stupid stuff: | |
| You eat her victuals quick enough; | |
| There can’t be much amiss, ’tis clear, | |
| To view the rate you drink her beer. | |
| But oh, an excellent Lord, the city you make, | 5 |
| It provides a chap the belly-ache. | |
| The cow, the old cow, she is dead; | |
| It sleeps well, the horned head: | |
| We poor lads, ’tis our turn now | |
| To hear such tunes as eliminated the cow. | 10 |
| Pretty friendship ’tis come rhyme | |
| Your friends to death prior to their time | |
| Moping melancholy mad: | |
| Come, pipeline a song to run to, lad.’ | |
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| Why, if ’tis dance you would be, | 15 |
| There’s brisker pipes 보다 poetry. | |
| Say, for what to be hop-yards meant, | |
| Or why was Burton developed on Trent? | |
| Oh countless a peer the England brews | |
| Livelier liquor 보다 the Muse, | 20 |
| And malt does more than Milton can | |
| To justification God’s ways to man. | |
| Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink | |
| For fellows whom it damages to think: | |
| Look into the pewter pot | 25 |
| To check out the world as the world’s not. | |
| And faith, ’tis pleasant till ’tis past: | |
| The mischief is that ’twill not last. | |
| Oh I have been to Ludlow fair | |
| And left mine necktie God knows where, | 30 |
| And carried half way home, or near, | |
| Pints and also quarts the Ludlow beer: | |
| Then the world seemed none so bad, | |
| And ns myself a sterling lad; | |
| And under in lovely muck I’ve lain, | 35 |
| Happy till i woke again. | |
| Then I observed the morning sky: | |
| Heigho, the tale was every a lie; | |
| The world, it to be the old civilization yet, | |
| I to be I, my things were wet, | 40 |
| And nothing currently remained come do | |
| But begin the game anew. | |
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| Therefore, since the world has still | |
| Much good, however much less an excellent than ill, | |
| And when the sun and moon endure | 45 |
| Luck’s a chance, yet trouble’s sure, | |
| I’d confront it together a wise male would, | |
| And train for ill and not for good. | |
| ’Tis true, the stuff I lug for sale | |
| Is not so fast a brew together ale: | 50 |
| Out of a stem that scored the hand | |
| I wrung the in a weary land. | |
| But take it it: if the smack is sour, | |
| The much better for the embittered hour; | |
| It should do an excellent to heart and head | 55 |
| When your soul is in my soul’s stead; | |
| And I will certainly friend you, if ns may, | |
| In the dark and also cloudy day. | |
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| There to be a king reigned in the East: | |
| There, when queens will sit to feast, | 60 |
| They get their fill prior to they think | |
| With poisoned meat and also poisoned drink. | |
| He gathered all the springs to birth | |
| From the many-venomed earth; | |
| First a little, thence come more, | 65 |
| He sampled all her killing store; | |
| And easy, smiling, jug sound, | |
| Sate the king as soon as healths went round. | |
| They put arsenic in his meat | |
| And stared aghast to watch him eat; | 70 |
| They poured strychnine in his cup | |
| And shook to see him drink that up: | |
| They shook, castle stared as white’s their shirt: | |
| Them it was your poison hurt. | |
—I tell the tale that ns heard told.
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| Mithridates, he died old. | |
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