Drink boys, drink boys,
Drive away your sorrow!

Drink boys, drink boys,
Drive away your sorrow!

Come, we burn daylight, ho!
Nay, that's not so.
I mean, sir, in delay
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Come, we burn daylight, ho!
Nay, that's not so.
I mean, sir, in delay
We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of
bitterness arises to vex us in the flower read more

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of
bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

Prodigal of the property of others, sparing of his own.

Prodigal of the property of others, sparing of his own.

If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.

The slothful is the servant of the counters.

The slothful is the servant of the counters.

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren
ground--long heath, brown furze, anything. read more

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren
ground--long heath, brown furze, anything. The wills above be
done, but I would fain die a dry death.

Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot!
Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--
Once taught a jay read more

Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot!
Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--
Once taught a jay to supplicate the Gods,
And made a Polly-theist of a Parrot!