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We'll sport and be free with Moll, Betty, and Dolly,
Have oysters and lobsters to cure melancholy:
Fish-dinners will make a lass spring like a flea,
Dame Venus, love's lady,
Was born of the sea.

— Thomas Jordan

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Let's eat, drink, and play till the worms do corrupt us,
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