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Or we may follow where Shakespeare leads, and sing unhesitatingly with him:—

There is only one drinking-song—a seventeenth-century drinking-song, too—with which I find it difficult to sympathize, and that is the well-known and often-quoted verse of Cowley's, beginning,—

Its strained and borrowed conceits which have lost all charm in the borrowing, are not in accordance with anything so natural and simple