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The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop

... To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author By the Rev. Thomas Clare

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EPIGRAM LXXXII.

[Old Gulo, one day, gravely shaking his head]

PAR PARI.

Old Gulo, one day, gravely shaking his head,
To his comrades a lecture of temperance read:

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“In all eating, and drinking, proportion pursue,—
“That's my method,” said he—and indeed he said true:
For wherever good wine, and good ven'son he found,
He would drink ye three bottles—and eat ye three pound.