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I. Some drink to Friendship, some to Love, -- / Through whom the world is fair, perdie! -- / But I to one these others prove, / Who leaps 'mid lions for a glove, / Or dies to set another free -- / I drink to Loyalty.
II. No dagger his, no cloak and mask, / Free-faced he stands so all may see; / Let Friendship set him any task, / Or Love -- reward he does not ask, / The deed is done whate'er it be -- / So here's to Loyalty.