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OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 9. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE FIFTH EPIGRAM by THOMAS CAMPION

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First Line: TOASTS AS SNAKES OR AS THE MORTAL HENBANE
Last Line: BUT IT DRINKS UP ALE: THAT HUNKS DETESTETH.
Subject(s): DRINKS & DRINKING; WINE;
@3Toasts as snakes or as the mortal henbane
Hunks detests when huffcap ale he tipples,
Yet the bread he grants the fumes abateth:
Therefore apt in ale: true, and he grants it;
But it drinks up ale: that Hunks detesteth.@1



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