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Yet a plague on the liquor! It leaves one as heavy as a country bumpkin with a bellyful of ale inside and a soft haystack beneath him. Smile upon me, ye Muses of Jocosity, the while I essay once more. I say to the King, 'Majesty, why is thy fair son, the Prince, like his godship, Olympian Jove?' 'Marry, perpend,' says Majesty, and see that thou transgress not the bounds of reasonable flattery, Sirrah Folly.' Sire,' I reply, 'he appeareth amorously to maidens, even as Jove to Danae, accompanied by a shower of gold.' Then do all the ladies giggle, the Prince fretteth, and the King roars most royally. Then say I, 'Majesty, why is thy fair son, the Prince, unlike his godship, Olympian Jove?' 'Say on thyself,' says Majesty. "Tis very simple,' say I. Danae died and gained reputation; these maidens, whom the Prince favoureth, live and lose it.' Upon which the ladies whisper and handle their daggers, the Prince laughs, and the King, looking away from his royal consort, grinneth most unctu |