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Quotes from Trifles. Reported in George R. Noyes — Jan Kochanowski

1530–1584 Poland

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I write in the same fashion that I live:
My rhymes are drunken, for I love to drink.
I like a revel and I like a jest,
Sometimes a woman: such things fill my verse.
And why pretend? The priest who strives to teach
Me moderation, hides a devil within.

Trifles. Reported in George R. Noyes (1942)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jan Kochanowski (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.