Quote #25

Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.

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  1. Made us nobly wild, not mad.
  2. Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.
  3. Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.
  4. But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
  5. I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried.
  6. Get up, sweet Slug-a-bed, and see The dew bespangling herb and tree.
  7. Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befri…
  8. 'Tis sin, Nay, profanation to keep in.

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