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 * Wouldst thou, thy Vats with gen'rous Juice should froth?

Respect thy Orchats; think not, that the Trees Spontaneous will produce an wholsom Draught. Let Art correct thy Breed; from Parent Bough A Cyon meetly sever; after, force A way into the Crabstock's close-wrought Grain By Wedges, and within the living Wound Enclose the Foster Twig; nor over-nice Refuse with thy own Hands around to spread The binding Clay: Ee'r-long their differing Veins Unite, and kindly Nourishment convey To the new Pupil; now he shoots his Arms With quickest Growth; now shake the teeming Trunc, Down rain th' impurpl'd Balls, ambrosial Fruit. Whether the Wilding's Fibres are contriv'd To draw th' Earth's purest Spirit, and resist Rh