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Rh Sick or well, at sea or shore;

While we're quaffing,

Let 's have laughing—

Who the devil cares for more?—

Some good wine! and who would lack it,

Ev'n on board the Lisbon Packet? Falmouth Roads, June 30, 1809. [First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, i. 230-232.]

[TO DIVES. A FRAGMENT.]

FAREWELL PETITION TO J. C. H., ESQRE.

yclep'd by vulgar sons of Men

Cam Hobhouse! but by wags Byzantian Ben!

Twin sacred titles, which combined appear

To grace thy volume's front, and gild its rear,