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SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 1 by MATTHEW PRIOR

First Line: READING ENDS IN MELANCHOLY
Last Line: FAREWELL ALL, IF FRIENDSHIP CEASES.
Subject(s): BOOKS; DISEASE; FRIENDSHIP; MELANCHOLY; READING; DEJECTION;
READING ends in melancholy;
Wine breeds vices and diseases;
Wealth is but care, and love but folly;
Only friendship truly pleases.
My wealth, my books, my flask, my Molly,
Farewell all, if friendship ceases.



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