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Title: Facing pages [78-79]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18640318-18640319
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Transcription: Wine- Ashe gives the following tradition respecting the use of wine When Adam planted the first vine. Satan approached it and said- "Lovely plant I will cherish thee," And there upon taking three animals, a lamb, a lion, and a hog. He slew them at the foot of the tree and their blood has been [imbedded] by the fruit with [this day]Thus if you take one glass of wine you've [wheered by] its influence you are mild and docile as a lamb, if you take two glasses you become furious and rave and [bellow] of [illegible] the lion and if you drink the third goblet, your reason sinks, and like the hog, you wallow in the [mize] -Amen. [blank] ------------------------------ March 18, Friday. Ashe gives the following tradition respecting the use of wine....[see online diary, if interested]. [6.] Note: 6. Thomas Ashe (1836-1889), English poet. The “Wine” work appears in “The World’s Progress”, p.582, edited by G.P.Putnam, 1853. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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