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After that roistering swagger, the poem unexpectedly closes with the conjunction of the wistful and worldly:

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Meanwhile, Queen Victoria’s son, the future Edward VII, devoted his energies to gambling, overeating, pursuing women and roistering with unsavory companions.

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Both movies lavish attention on waterfront dives, roistering sailors and back-alley hôtels de passe.

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At last only two of that roistering, impudent band were left, the priest of the suitors and their bard.

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“The Masque of the Red Death” was Corman’s audacious attempt to make an art film for the drive-in crowd — a feast of roistering revelry with intimations of Buñuel, Fellini and Bergman.

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