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The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.

Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.

I sit alone at present, dreaming darkly of a Dun.

But what is coffee, but a noxious berry, Born to keep used-up Londoners awake?

Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.

Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel
Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny ...

I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.

Precious to me - it is the Dinner Bell. Oh blessed Bell! Thou bringest beef and beer ...

The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.

Life is with such all beer and skittles.
They are not difficult to please
About their victuals.

Meaning, however, is no great matter.