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BOOK II. Egregious, Rum, and Rice's Spirit extract. For here, expos'd to perpendicular Rays, In vain they covet Shades, and Thrascias' Gales, Pining with Æquinoctial Heat, unless The Cordial Glass perpetual Motion keep, Quick circuiting; nor dare they close their Eyes, Void of a bulky Charger near their Lips, With which, in often-interrupted Sleep, Their frying Blood compells to irrigate Their dry-furr'd Tongues, else minutely to Death Obnoxious, dismal Death, th' Effect of Drought!


 * More happy they, born in Columbus' World,

Carybbes, and they, whom the Cotton Plant With downy-sprouting Vests arrays! Their Woods Bow with prodigious Nuts, that give at once Celestial Food, and Nectar; then, at hand The Lemmon, uncorrupt with Voyage long, Rh