. Early English poetry, ballads, and popular literature of the Middle Ages ;. a better specimen than usual of hispowers. Come, come, let us drink the vintners good health,Tis the cask, not the coffer, that holds the true wealth;If to founders of blessings we pyramids bowl, next the sceptre, deserves the best , next to the queen, let the vintners fame gives us good laws, and they fill us good wine. Columbus and Cortez their sails they uufurld. To discover the mines of an Indian world, To find beds of gold so far they could roam: Fools I fools!—when the wealth of t
. Early English poetry, ballads, and popular literature of the Middle Ages ;. a better specimen than usual of hispowers. Come, come, let us drink the vintners good health,Tis the cask, not the coffer, that holds the true wealth;If to founders of blessings we pyramids bowl, next the sceptre, deserves the best , next to the queen, let the vintners fame gives us good laws, and they fill us good wine. Columbus and Cortez their sails they uufurld. To discover the mines of an Indian world, To find beds of gold so far they could roam: Fools I fools!—when the wealth of the world lay at grape, the true treasure, much nearer it Isle of Canarys worth all the Peru. 96 THE CIVIC GARLAND. Let misers in garrets hide up their gay store,And heap their rich bags to live wretchedly poor;Tis the cellar alone with true fame is renownd,Her treasures dilFusive, and chears all around:The gold and the gems but the eyes gaudy toy,But the vintners Iich juice gives health, life, and joy. Klcliards, llM),St. Martins Laiie, Ulinrin;; LIFE AND MARTYRDOM OF THOMAS B E K E T, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, FROM THE SERIES OF LIVES AND LEGENDS NOW PROVEDTO HAVE BEEN COMPOSED BY ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER. KDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY BLACK, ONE OF THE ASSISTANT KEErEBS OF THErUBMC RECORDS. LONDON:PRINTED FOR THE PERCY SOCIETY, BY T. RICHARDS, 100, ST. MARTINS LANE, COUNCIL € perrL) ^ocictj)* President,The Rt. Hon, LOED BRAYBROOKE, AMYOT, Esq. Treas. HENRY BLACK, EsqWILLIAM CHAPPELL, Esq. PAYNE COLLIER, Esq. CORNEY, CUNNINGHAM, HENRY DIXON, W. FAIRHOLT, Esq. , O. HALLIWELL, Esq. , JERDAN, Esq. A., M JOHNS, J. PETTIGREW, , ^ILLIAM SANDYS, Esq. J. THOMS, Esq. WRIGHT, Esq. M A, , Secrelaryand Treasurer. PREFACE. Of the legends in old English Alexandri
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