...that in his convivial meetings there was not something higher and better than sensual indulgence : — "Ah, Ben ! Say how, or when Shall we thy guests Meet at those lyric feaste, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tim? Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild,...

...something higher and better than sensual indulgence : — "Ah, Ben! Say how, or when Shall we thy guesta Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun 1 Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad ; And yet each verse of thine Outdid the...

...trnnslunary scenes' of the poets inspired the muse of Herríck in the following •train:— AhBen! and intellectual acuteness, though tainted with the...here extracted : — [ What Education. Embraces.} 1 And yet each verse of thine Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine. My Ben ! Or come again, Or send...

...meetings long lingered in his brain, as the following stanzas of his will prove : — " Ah, Ben ! Say now or when Shall we thy guests Meet at those lyric feasts...of thine Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine. " My Den I Or come again, Or send to us Thy wit's great overplus. But teach us yet, Wisely to husband...

...see, To the number five, Or nine ; but thrive In frenzy ne'er lifee thee. CCLXIX. ODE FOR THE SAME. Ah, Ben ! Say how or when Shall we, thy guests, Meet...such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad f My Bon! Or come again, Or send to us, Thy wit's great overplus : But teach us yet Wisely to husband...

...scenes" then gone by inspired his muse thus to address the shade of " glorious Ben." It commences — " Ah Ben ! Say how or when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at these lyric feasts Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had As made us...

...bard of " Those lyric feasts, Where men such clusters had, As made them nobly wild, not mad , While yet each verse of thine Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine." CHAPTER XIII. Let the proud salmon gorge the featber'd hook, Then strike, and then you have him—...

...rapturously he invokes the great "Ben" to " Meet at those lyrick feasts Made at the Sun, The Dog, tha Triple Tun, Where we such clusters had As made us nobly wild, not mad." These poets have left a Bacchanalian odour behind them. But there is a smack of tipsy jollity in every...

...commences — " Ah Ben ! Say how or when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at these lyric feasts Made at the Sun+, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had As made us nobly wild, not mad ! And yet such verse of thine Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine." Ben's means of subsistence were, according...

...long lease of life, and he had seen the Revolution of '88. In his young days were being celebrated those " lyric feasts made at the Sun, the Dog, the Triple Tun," whereat the Herricks, Fletchers, Jonsons, quaffed the mighty bowl, charged * A line parodied from one...