It’s just so much the better,
For there’s meat and drink, and physic too,
In plain cold water.
From Health and Pleasure, or Malvern Punch. By J. B. Oddfish. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. 1865.
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THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER.
Horatii Rosarum.
Eheu rosarum floruit ultima!
Vel mille nuper cincta sororibus,
At nunc amicarum cohorti