Members of the Literary Research Society have concluded from i ternal evidence that the follo ing. wonnot must have been written by William Shakespeare after he jad temporarily foregone smal ing. Very few changes in the original are necessary to bring this out clearly, How like a winter hath my absence been From Thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!
And yet this time removed vas summer's time: The teeming autumn, big with rich increase, When others lit their Golofinas prime, And smoked the fag or else the ipe of peace.
Yet this abi But spite of Tobacco and dant smoking seemed to me friends, bitter, forbidden fruit. its pleasing luxury Were like a saxophone, its sobbings mute.
The mild weed's fragrance brought me but this cheers I never will swear off another year. ince writing the of the Society hare bees advised that Shakespeare Tobacco in mind in componing the wonnot tin queet net then been introduced into Bugland.
Tothin the Society sonnet indicaten that Tobacco cepted.
'Secondly, if thi docs not "refer ta Tobacco if must "to. Strong Drink, Gar readers, if ney have time left from Crocs' Word ten, may make the eveasary corrections for themeelees.)
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