(Oh! John Barleycorn is a wizard dopester.

Brain and body, scorched and jangled and poisoned, return to be tuned up by the very poison that caused the damage.) There is no end to John Barleycorn's tricks.

He had tried to inveigle me into killing myself.

At this period he was doing his best to kill me at a fairly rapid pace.

But, not satisfied with that, he tried another dodge.