Social Commentaries
Upon This Passage in Scaligeriana
From Miscellaneous Works (Waller, 1907)
Social Commentaries
WHEN you with High-Dutch Heeren dine,
Expert false Latin, and stumm'd Wine,
They never Taste who always Drink,
They always Talk who never Think.
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