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GR-R-R -- there go, my heart's abhorrence! / Water your damned flower-pots, do! / If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence, / God's blood, would not mine kill you! / What? your myrtle-bush wants trimming? / Oh, that rose has prior claims -- / Needs its leaden vase filled brimming? / Hell dry you up with its flames!
At the meal we sit together: / _Salve tibi! _ I must hear / Wise talk of the kind of weather, / Sort of season, time of year: / _Not a plenteous cork-crop: scarcely / Dare we hope oak-galls, I doubt: / What's the Latin name for "parsley"? _ / What's the Greek name for Swine's Snout?