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. Cloe Jealous
2. If Wine and Music Have the Power
3. On a Fart - Let in the House of Commons
4. Phyllis's Age
5. An Ode - Inscribed to the Memory of the Hon. Colonel George Villiers

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