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From The World’s Wit and Humor, Vol. XIII, Italian — Spanish, The Review of Reviews Company; New York; 1906; pp. 198.

José Morell [Seventeenth Century]

Advice to an Innkeeper

“MINGLE the sweet and useful,” says a sage,
Whose name, perchance, is lost in history’s page,
But whose advice withal is good and wise.
It caught a tavern-keeper’s busy eyes,
And he exclaimed, “Delightful! That’s for me!
I see the sense, I read the mystery;
This is its meaning, I can well divine:
‘Mix useful water with your luscious wine.’ ”

To a Poet

YOU may say your verses are of gold.
     And how, my friend? I’d fain inquire.
But, no — I see the truth you’ve told:
     They must be purified by fire.

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