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"I aely suited,the beauty of the green geination Soive the rein to e chalice,--e?"

"When I had drunken, I think," replied my lord "The ould be a potent spur to my fancy"

"What saith honest Jack Falstaff?" broke in the ood sherris maketh the brain apprehensive and quick; filleth it with ni delivered by the tongue becoet fancies" He filled for hiain, and buried his nose in the cup

"'T is such a cup, methinks," I said, "as Medea may have filled for Theseus The white hand of Circe reet Ulysses, and knew not that he had the saving herb in his palan Fair Rosamond may have drunk from it while the Queen watched her At so croith roses, side by side, uest, who had, perhaps, a treasure of his own I dare swear Rene, the Florentine, hath fingered oblet before it went to whohted to honor"

"She had the whitest hands," maundered the Secretary "I kissed the Rene was one of your slow poisoners Sloves, drink froh your bier ht not receive you for loves lost, the cup forgotten"

"There's a fashion I have seen followed abroad, that I like," I said "Host and guest fill to each other, then change tankards You are uest I will drink to you, oblet"

With as frank a old glass over to hioblet That a man may smile and sh and gesture of courtesy were as free and ready as if the poisoned splendor he dreard him had been as innocent as a pearl within the shell I took the silver cup fro," I said, and drained it to the bottom "Your lordship does not drink 'T is a toast no man refuses"