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 - 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. A Sailor's Wife
4. Bibo and Charon
5. Seeing the Duke of Ormond's Picture, at Sir Godfrey Kneller's

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