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The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4

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What may be the name of this wine?
_John_.

It hath as many names as qualities.

It is denominated indifferently, wit, conceit, invention, inspiration, but its most royal and comprehensive name is _fancy_.
3_rd Gent_.

And where keeps he this sovereign liquor?
_John_.

Its cellars are in the brain, whence your true poet deriveth intoxication at will; while his animal spirits, catching a pride from the quality and neighborhood of their noble relative, the brain, refuse to be sustained by wines and fermentations of earth.
3_rd Gent_.


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