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The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4

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To see the fireworks, where you will be expected to follow.
But I perceive you are better engaged.
_John_.

I have been meditating this half hour, On all the properties of a brave friendship, The mysteries that are in it, the noble uses, Its limits withal, and its nice boundaries.
_Exempli gratia_, how far a man May lawfully forswear himself for his friend; What quantity of lies, some of them brave ones, He may lawfully incur in a friend's behalf! What oaths, blood-crimes, hereditary quarrels, Night brawls, fierce words, and duels in the morning, He need not stick at, to maintain his friend's honor, or his cause.
_Lovel_.

I think many men would die for their friends.
_John_.

Death! why,'tis nothing.

We go to it for sport, To gain a name or purse, or please a sullen humor, When one has worn his fortune's livery threadbare, Or his spleen'd mistress frowns.


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