“So I the pleasant grape have pulled from the vine,
And yet I languish in great thirst, while others drink the wine.”
from Care and Disappointment, first published in Paradyse of Dainty Devices, 1576. Published by Grosart in Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies' Library, Vol. IV (1872)
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