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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. 



Matthew Prior


Matthew Prior's other poems:
  1. On My Birthday, July 21
  2. An Ode - Presented to the King, on His Majesty's Arrival in Holland, after the Queen's Death
  3. Cupid Mistaken
  4. Answer to Cloe Jealous. The Author Sick
  5. Cloe Jealous


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