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BOOK I.  Nor from cretaceous, stubborn and jejune: The Must, of pallid Hue, declares the Soil Devoid of Spirit; wretched He, that quaffs Such wheyish Liquors; oft with Colic Pangs, With pungent Colic Pangs distress'd, he'll roar, And toss, and turn, and curse th' unwholsome Draught. But, Farmer, look, where full-ear'd Sheaves of Rye Grow wavy on the Tilth, that Soil select For Apples; thence thy Industry shall gain Ten-fold Reward; thy Garners, thence with Store Surcharg'd, shall burst; thy Press with purest Juice Shall flow, which, in revolving Years, may try Thy feeble Feet, and bind thy fault'ring Tongue. Such is the Kentchurch, such Dantzeyan Ground, Such thine, O learned Brome, and Capel such, Willisian Burlton, much-lov'd Geers his Marsh, And Sutton-Acres, drench'd with Regal Blood Of Ethelbert, when to th' unhallow'd Feast Rh