[The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott]@TWC D-Link bookThe Talisman CHAPTER XX 16/17
"I tell thee, man, that this flagon of Cyprus will set his brains a-spinning, just in the opposite direction that they went whirling in the dancing, and so bring him, as it were, to himself again.
Choke? He will no more choke on it than Ben's black bitch on the pound of butter." "And for grudging it," said Tomalin Blacklees, "why shouldst thou grudge the poor paynim devil a drop of drink on earth, since thou knowest he is not to have a drop to cool the tip of his tongue through a long eternity ?" "That were hard laws, look ye," said Long Allen, "only for being a Turk, as his father was before him.
Had he been Christian turned heathen, I grant you the hottest corner had been good winter quarters for him." "Hold thy peace, Long Allen," said Henry Woodstall.
"I tell thee that tongue of thine is not the shortest limb about thee, and I prophesy that it will bring thee into disgrace with Father Francis, as once about the black-eyed Syrian wench.
But here comes the horn.
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