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74 To ply the sweet Carouse, remote from Noise, Secur'd of fev'rish Heats! When th' aged Year Inclines, and Boreas' Spirit blusters frore, Beware th' inclement Heav'ns; now let thy Hearth Crackle with juiceless Boughs; thy lingring Blood Now instigate with th' Apples powerful Streams. Perpetual Showers, and stormy Gusts confine The willing Ploughman, and December warns To Annual Jollities; now sportive Youth Carol incondite Rhythms, with suiting Notes, And quaver unharmonious; sturdy Swains In clean Array, for rustic Dance prepare, Mixt with the Buxom Damsels; hand in hand They frisk, and bound, and various Mazes weave, Shaking their brawny Limbs, with uncouth Mein, Transported, and sometimes, an oblique Leer Dart on their Loves, sometimes, an hasty Kiss Steal from unwary Lasses; they with Scorn, Rh