Contention and sour looks are surely no one’s bread.
If to put on sour looks, of thankfulness sign be,
Then vinegar the sweetest-spoken thing we’d see.
If vinegar desire to hearts a way to find,
It oxymel becomes, with honey sweet combined.
True, verse is not best vehicle for sense abstract.
It’s like a sling; one’s never certain how ’t will act.“160
Th’ ambassador his senses lost with this one cup
Of wine spiritual. His mission he gave up.
O’erwhelmed with wonder at the power of God, he fell.