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. An Ode - Presented to the King, on His Majesty's Arrival in Holland, after the Queen's Death
2. An Ode - Inscribed to the Memory of the Hon. Colonel George Villiers
3. Upon This Passage In Scaligeriana
4. A Sailor's Wife
5. Seeing the Duke of Ormond's Picture, at Sir Godfrey Kneller's

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