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Excerpt from The Book of Toasts: Being, for the Most Part, Bubbles Gathered From the Wine of Others' Wit, With, Here and There, an Occasional Humbler Globule Believed to Be More or Less Original
Prostrate, with heads abased, and arms outspread, Our noses grov'ling humbly in the dust; Upon our slavish necks thy lordly shoon; Thine incandescent intellect, above Our worm-like forms, filling the startled air With the consuming lightnings of thy wit; We snivel, They that are about to die Salute thee, Mightiest! Then, from the lees, We lap a little wine to thy great self. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
