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 In me a more transcendent heat Than that insinuating fire Which crept into each reverend Sire,


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"When the high Helen her fair cheeks Showed to the army of the Greeks; At which I'll rise (Blind though as midnight in my eyes), And hearing it, Flutter and crow, and, in a fit Of young concupiscence, and feel New flames within the aged steal.


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"Thus frantic, crazy man (God wot), I'll call to mind the times forgot And oft between Sigh out the Times that we have seen! And shed a tear, And twisting my Iülus hair, Doting, I'll weep and say (in truth) Baucis, these were the sins of youth.


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"Then will I cause my hopeful Lad (If a wild Apple can be had) To crown the Hearth (Lar thus conspiring with our mirth); Next to infuse Our better beer into the cruse: Which, neatly spiced, we'll first carouse Unto the Vesta of the house.