Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent?
[Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]

Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent?
[Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]

No love is foule, nor prison fair.

No love is foule, nor prison fair.

You may be on land, yet not in a garden.

You may be on land, yet not in a garden.

To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.

To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.

Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?

Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both
of them.

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both
of them.

Yestreen, when to the trembling string
The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha',
To thee my fancy read more

Yestreen, when to the trembling string
The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha',
To thee my fancy took its wing;
I sat, but neither heard nor saw.

There rose no day, there roll'd no hour
Of pleasure unembitter'd;
And not a trapping deck'd my read more

There rose no day, there roll'd no hour
Of pleasure unembitter'd;
And not a trapping deck'd my power,
That gall'd not while it glitter'd.

A favour is half granted, when graciously refused.

A favour is half granted, when graciously refused.