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/ 1. Big-stomached, like friars / Who ogle a nun, / Quaff deep to their bellies' desires / From the old abbey's tun, / Grapes fatten with fires / Warm-filtered from moon and from sun.
/ 2. As a novice who muses, -- / Lips a rosary tell, / While her thoughts are -- a love she refuses? / -- Nay! mourns as not well: / The ripe apple looses / Its holding to rot where it fell.