Poem by Matthew Prior

Upon This Passage In Scaligeriana

When you with High-Dutch Heeren dine,
Expect false Latin and stum'd wine:
They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think. 

1. An Ode - Inscribed to the Memory of the Hon. Colonel George Villiers
2. Bibo and Charon
3. Written in an Ovid
4. Songs Set to Music: 1. Set by Mr. Abel
5. Seeing the Duke of Ormond's Picture, at Sir Godfrey Kneller's

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