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Title: The humour of Italy;
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Werner, Alice, 1859-1935 Faldi, Arturo, 1856-
Subjects: Italian wit and humor
Publisher: London, W. Scott ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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edAlong the crowd to clear the royal road. Like drunken Swiss he looked, and seemed connectedWith ruffians low who hire themselves abroad On festal days, before the Pope to bluster, Breaking of arms and skull-caps in a fluster. With Joves broad hat and spectacles arrivedThe light-heeled Mercury; in his hand he bore A sack, in which, of other means deprived, He damned poor mortals prayers, some million score; Those he disposed in vessels, well contrived,Which graced his fathers cabinet of yore; And, wont attention to all claims to pay, He regularly signed them twice a day. Then Jove himself, in royal habit dressed, With starry diadem upon his head,And oer his shoulders an imperial vest, Worn upon holidays.—The king displayedA sceptre, pastoral shape, with hooked crest; In a rich jacket too was he arrayed,Given by the inhabitants of Sericane,And Ganymede held up his splendid train. Alessandro Tassoni. PRAISES OF THE WINE OF MONTE-PULCIANO. 45 PRAISES OF THE WINE OF MONTE-PULCIANO. •
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OH ! how widely wandereth heWho, in the search of verity,Keeps aloof from glorious wine !Lo ! the knowledge it bringeth to me.For Barbarossa, this wine so bright,With its rich red look and its strawberry light,So invites meAnd so delights me,I should infallibly quench my inside with it,Had not HippocratesAnd old AndromachusStrictly forbidden itAnd loudly chidden it,So many stomachs have sickened anddied with it.Yet discordant as it is,Two good biggins will not come amiss ; 46 ITALIAN HUMOUR. Because I know, while Im drinking them down, What is the finish and what is the crown. A cup of good Corsican Does it at once; Or a cup of old Spanish Is next for the nonce : Quackish resources are things for a dunce. Cups of chocolate, Ay, or tea, Are not medicines Made for me. I would sooner take to poison, Than a single cup set eyes on Of that bitter and guilty stuff ye Talk of by the name of coffee. Let the Arabs and the Turks Count it mongst their cruel works : Foe of mankind black and turbid

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