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Pleasant and Diver live.
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WHAT need we take care for Platonical Rules,
Or the Precepts of Aristotle;
Those that think to find Learning in Books are but
Foolsj
True Philosophy lies in the Bottle :
And the Mind that's confin'd to the Modes of the
Schools
Ne'er arrives to the height of a Pottle :
Let the Sages of our Ages keep a talking of our walk-
ing, - '- - ^,
Demurely, whilst we that are wiser
Do abhor all that's Moral in Cato and Plato,
And Seneca talks like a Sizer :
Then let full Bowls, full. Bottles and Bowls be hurfd,
That our Jollity may be compleater ; j-
For Mart, t/w' he be but a very little World, ,
Must be Drown 'd as well as the greater.
We will drink till our Cheeks are as Star'd as the Skies,
Let the pale colour'd Student flout us;
Till our Noses like Comets, set Eire on our Eyes,
And we bear the Horizon about us :
And if all make us fall, then our Heels shall divine,;
' 'What the Stars are a doing without us :
Let Lilly go tell ye of Thunders and Wonders,
And Astrologers all divine;.
Let Booker be a looker in our Natures and Features,
He'll find nothing but Claret in mine.
Then let full Bowls, §l<l. - -
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