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 Rh and Ford gave the fullest expression to the gay laws of Sans Souci in his drinking-song in "The Sun's Darling:"—

To pause in the generous swing of verses like these, and call to mind Mrs. Jameson's refined and chilling verdict, "It is difficult to sympathize with English drinking-songs," is like stepping from the sunshine of life into the shaded drawing-room of genteel society. Difficult to sympathize! Why, we may drink nothing stronger than tea and Apollinaris water all our lives; yet none the less the mad music of Elizabethan song will dance merrily in our hearts, and give even to us our brief hour of illogical, unreasonable happiness. What had the author of "The Diary of an Ennuyée" to do with that robust age when ennui had still to be invented? What was