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Songs Set To Music: 1. Set By Mr. Abel
Matthew Prior
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Poetry
Reading ends in melancholy,
Wine breeds vices and diseases,
Wealth is but care, and love but folly,
Only friendship truly pleases.
My wealth, my books, my flask, my Molly,
Farewell all if friendship ceases.
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