Reading ends in melancholy, <br />Wine breeds vices and diseases, <br />Wealth is but care, and love but folly, <br />Only friendship truly pleases. <br />My wealth, my books, my flask, my Molly, <br />Farewell all if friendship ceases.<br /><br />Matthew Prior<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/songs-set-to-music-1-set-by-mr-abel/
