Poem by Matthew Prior

Bibo and Charon

When Bibo thought fit from the world to retreat,
As full of Champagne as an egg's full of meat,
He waked in the boat, and to Charon he said,
He would be row'd back, for he was not yet dead.
Trim the boat and sit quiet, stern Charon replied,
You may have forgot - you were drunk when you died. 

1. A Letter to Lady Margaret Cavendish Holles-Harley, When a Child
2. Upon This Passage In Scaligeriana
3. An Ode - Presented to the King, on His Majesty's Arrival in Holland, after the Queen's Death
4. An Extempore Invitation to the Earl of Oxford, Lord High Treasurer
5. Fatal Love

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