Of A Drunkard

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Title:     Of A Drunkard
Author: Richard Lovelace [More Titles by Lovelace]

FLORIDI. DE EBRIOSO.

Phoebus me in somnis vetuit potare Lyaeum,
Pareo praeceptis: tunc bibo cum vigilo.

OF A DRUNKARD

Phoebus asleep forbad me wine to take:
I yield; and now am only drunk awake.

[The end]
Richard Lovelace's poem: Of A Drunkard

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