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Original Text:
LA MORT D'ANACREON.
Entre le fromage et la poire,
Ce chantre des amours folâtrait après boire,
Lorsqu'un malencontreux pépin
Lui fit perdre le goût du pain.

(Bossuet, Oeuvres badine.)

Translation:
ANACREON'S DEATH.
Between the cheese and the bread
this singer of love, frolic and wine
He swallowed a grape seed, I swear
which finished his life so divine.

(Bossuet, from his humorous oeuvre)