While the deep hold is tempest-tost,

We'll strain bright nectar from the lees:

For, though our freedom here be lost,

We drink no water on the seas. —C. Merivale.


Alexis. (Book xii. § 1, p. 818; iv. § 59, p. 265, &c.)

You, Sir, a Cyrenean, as I take you,

Look at your sect of desperate voluptuaries;

There's Diodorus—beggary is too good for him—

A vast inheritance in two short years,