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THE DREGS IN THE CUP

"O eloquent, just and mightie death! whom none could advise,
thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and
whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of
the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the farre
stretched greatnesses; all the pride, crueltie and ambition of
man and covered it all over with these two narrow words, _Hic
jacet_."
SIR WALTER RALEIGH.