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ANACREONTICS.
A current[1] from the grape he drew, a marvellous libation;
And tippling up his new-found wine grew more and more ecstatical,
Until it forced him to recline in posture problematical.
Thus No A's drink became no ease, and brought him to disaster,
While Johnston's liquor only frees our tongues to talk the faster.
When Noah grew too old and staid to follow out his mission,
- ↑ All the punlings are italicized, to prevent mistakes. Swinton of the Times, who is not easily permeable by the common domestic joke, once advised me to put my jests into Roman capitals, not considering them capital, but possibly intimating that they were rum-uns.
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