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ANACREONTICS.
Young Bacchus started in the trade, and set up opposition;
He gave his foes no end of fits, and gave his friends their wishes.
Made women tear their king to bits, and turned men into fishes;
Raised Ariadne to the skies, and 'verted[1] all the East,
But Johnston's doings more surprise the sharers of his feast.
He turned us all to demi-gods with such a punch as this,
And took us up, with a loving cup, to the seventh heaven of bliss.
- ↑ When an individual "renounces the errors" of one church and "adopts those" of another, it is now polite English to call him a 'vert (without con or pro), so as not to offend either the sect he is 'verted from, or the sect he is 'verted to. Quære, whether vert, in this sense, has any connection with the French word for green. "Apology" Newman thinks it hasn't.
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