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BOOK II. When to convenient Vigour it attains, Suffice it to provide a brazen Tube Inflext; self-taught, and voluntary flies The defecated Liquor, thro' the Vent Ascending, then by downward Tract convey'd, Spouts into subject Vessels, lovely clear. As when a Noon-tide Sun, with Summer Beams, Darts thro' a Cloud, her watry Skirts are edg'd With lucid Amber, or undrossy Gold: So, and so richly, the purg'd Liquid shines.


 * Now also, when the Colds abate, nor yet

Full Summer shines, a dubious Season, close In Glass thy purer Streams, and let them gain, From due Confinement, Spirit, and Flavour new.


 * For this Intent, the subtle Chymist feeds

Perpetual Flames, whose unresisted Force Rh