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But Flashes of Wit:
Epigrams from Sir Thomas Urquhart’s “Apollo and the Muses”

Unpublished 17th-century epigrams edited from the manuscript by Roger Craik. Wood-engravings by Sarah van Niekerk printed in colours. Printed at the Libanus Press, Marlborough. 200 numbered copies. Wrappers, 1999.


A DRUNKARD SPEAKS HERE OF
HIS OWN INVINCIBLE DETERMINATION
OF CAROUSING
Some say by drinking that I'll lose my sight:
Yet I care not, for still
So long's I drink, I will
Remember once I saw both day and night:
Farewell then eyes, for I have seen enough:
But from my drinking will I not leave off.

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