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From wine what sudden friendship springs!

Fables. Part ii. The Squire and his Cur.

Life is a jest, and all things show it;

I thought so once, but now I know it.

My own Epitaph.

Footnotes

[348:1] The time of paying a shot in a tavern among good fellows, or Pantagruelists, is still called in France a "quart d'heure de Rabelais,"—that is, Rabelais's quarter of an hour, when a man is uneasy or melancholy.—Life of Rabelais (Bohn's edition), p. 13.

[348:2] O'er the hills and far away.—D'Urfey: Pills to purge Melancholy (1628-1723).

[348:3] "Midnight oil,"—a common phrase, used by Quarles, Shenstone, Cowper, Lloyd, and others.