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 came affable and jocoe, and talked of love and wine with o much glee, that you would have uppoed the hoary Teian bard had come to life again in the diguie of an hermit. He renewed the old hymn in praie of Venus and Bacchus; an hymn which, in ome form or other, has been in vogue ever ince the grape was firt preed and maidens firt kied. After he had handed to his foter-on a full bumper, who had honetly pledged him, he confidentially addreed him in thee words: ‘My on, lay thine hand on thine heart, and give me an anwer to one quetion; but take care thy heart do not prove knavih and cheat thee: guard thy tongue alo, that no fale word glide over it, ele will the lie tain thy tongue black, even as the pot over the fire is blackened by the oot. Tell me then truly and without deceit, has love of woman ever entered thy heart, has the glow of deire warmed thy boom; or Rh