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MR. MAC QUEDY.
Nay, by no means. We are all agreed on deliberative dinners.
THE REV. DR. FOLLIOTT.
Very true; we will dine and discuss. We will sing with Robin Hood, "If I drink water while this doth last;" and while it lasts we will have no adjournment, if not to the Athenian theatre.
MR. TRILLO.
Well, gentlemen, I hope this chorus at least will please you:
If I drink water while this doth last,
May I never again drink wine:
For how can a man, in his life of a span,
Do any the better than dine?
We'll dine and drink, and say if we think
That any thing better be,
And when we have dined, wish all mankind
May dine as well as we.
May I never again drink wine:
For how can a man, in his life of a span,
Do any the better than dine?
We'll dine and drink, and say if we think
That any thing better be,
And when we have dined, wish all mankind
May dine as well as we.
