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QUID SIT FUTURUM by ANONYMOUS

First Line: DRINK AND BE MERRY: THERE IS NO MAN KNOWS
Last Line: AND YOU HAVE NOT
Subject(s): DRINKS & DRINKING;

DRINK and be merry: there is no man knows
To-morrow, or thereafter, how it goes:
Run not nor strive;
Give, share, and eat; be kindly as you can;
Think only thoughts that do befit a man;
Dead or alive,
Between the two's not much to choose:
Life is just that, a dip of weighing-pans;
Quick, and you take the lot,
But if you die, 'tis all another man's,
And you have not.



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