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Small poems of Divers sorts

Written by Sir Aston Cokain

Cokain, Aston (1608-1684)

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106. To Mr. Henry Longville.

Marvel not (Friend) that oftentimes I write
As if in drinking I did take delight:
I (at my best) am ill enough, and hate
To make my self a Beast at any rate.
Of Mirth and companie I sometimes think;
The cause that now and then I write of drink.