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The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4

PROLOGUE, SPOKEN BY MR
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We have here the unchecked virtues of the grape.

How the vapors curl upwards! It were a life of gods to dwell in such an element: to see, and hear, and talk brave things.

Now fie upon these casual potations.

That a man's most exalted reason should depend upon the ignoble fermenting of a fruit, which sparrows pluck at as well as we.
_Gray_ (_aside to Lovel_).

Observe how he is ravished.
_Lovel_.


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