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  • Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
    You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill:
    Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age
    Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

    Alexander Pope, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Colley Cibber (1804). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with his last corrections, additions and improvements”, p.105