II.

Wilt thou engross thy store

Of wheat, and pour no more,

Because their bacon-brains had such a taste

As more delight in mast:

No! set them forth a board of dainties, full

As thy best muse can cull

Whilst they the while do pine

And thirst, midst all their wine.

What greater plague can hell itself devise,

Than to be willing thus to tantalise?

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