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Spending faster than it comes,
Beating waiters, bailiffs, duns,
Bacchus' true-begotten sons,
Live the rakes of Mallow.

— Edward Lysaght Disputed

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Notes from Wikiquote

Attributed in Owen-Madden (1848), p. 13. Unattributed in Barry (1845), pp. 181–2

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