hah that's very cool
KS
On 13/04/07, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> A warning against drink (Proverbs 23: 29–35) as given in the Geneva Bible:
>
> 31 Looke not thou upon the wine, when it is red, and when it sheweth his colour
> in the cuppe, or goeth down pleasantly.
>
> 32 In the ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise.
>
> 33 Thine eyes shall looke upon strange women, and thine heart shall speake lewde
> things.
>
> 34 And thou shalt bee as one that sleepeth in the middes of the sea, and as he
> that sleepeth in the top of the mast.
>
> 35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, but I was not sicke: they have beaten
> me, but I knew not, when I awoke: therefore will I seeke it yet still.
>
> (quoted in the current TLS in James Fenton's piece on 'The Unbeliever' by
> Elizabeth Bishop and its use of Bunyan)
>
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