A ceremony Neville says he has watched, used as the measure of a life. At a Jewish wedding there are two glasses of wine, one sweet and one bitter; the bitter has very little in it, the sweet is almost to the brim but not quite, and during the ceremony the couple must drink from both. That is life - and the proportion is the point: there is more of sweet than there is of bitter. At 1361 he adds the close of the rite, the rabbi setting the glasses down and crushing them underfoot after both have been drunk. He sets it beside Blake’s joy and woe woven fine (M517) and beside the little scroll of Revelation 10, which was sweet as honey in the mouth and bitter in the stomach - and beside the ark, into which went more clean animals than unclean. All four say the same thing and he uses them interchangeably: the bitter is real, it must be drunk, and there is less of it.