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EPIGRAM: 85. OF THE ABBOT AND HIS VALET, by             Poem Explanation         Poet's Biography
First Line: His grace the abbot and his servynge ladde
Last Line: Whyle in the bowle a single drop was left.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Household Employees; Wine; Servants; Domestics; Maids


HIS grace the Abbot and his servynge ladde
Are of one claye as honey is of wax;
One is a loon, the other one is madde;
One loves a joke, the other his sides cracks;
One drinks goode wine, the other never lacks.
Thus a debate one nighte between them rose:
Wineless his worship would no more repose
Than he would die of all his friends bereft,
Wheras his valet's eyelids could not close
Whyle in the bowle a single drop was left.





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