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EPITAPH AFTER READING RONSARD'S LINES FROM RABELAIS by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE

First Line: IF FRUITS ARE FED ON ANY BEAST
Last Line: DAMNED HIS SOUL TO WATER SPRINGS.
Subject(s): ALCOHOLISM & ALCOHOLICS; CLERGY; PRIESTS; RABBIS; MINISTERS; BISHOPS;

If fruits are fed on any beast
Let vine-roots suck this parish priest,
For while he lived, no summer sun
Went up but he'd a bottle done,
And in the starlight beer and stout
Kept his waistcoat bulging out.
Then Death that changes happy things
Damned his soul to water springs.




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