Of late so fast, is now grown drowsy too;
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When sweet, cold, clammy punch its aid bestows,
Then thus the midnight conversation flows:—
"Then, as I said, and—mind me—as I say,
At our last meeting—you remember"—"Ay;"
"Well, very well—then freely as I drink
I spoke my thought—you take me—what I think:
And sir, said I, if I a freeman be,
It is my bounden duty to be free."—