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  Shall we experience, as we dine, The joys of Prohibition. 2em XIII HY gird at Lollius if he care To purchase in the city's sight, With nard and roses for his hair, The name of Knight?

Son of unmitigated sires Enriched by trade in Afric corn, His wealth allows, his wife requires, Him to be born.

Him slaves shall serve with zeal renewed At lesser wage for longer whiles, And school- and station-masters rude Receive with smiles.

His bowels shall be sought in charge By learned doctors; all his sons And nubile daughters shall enlarge Their horizons.

For fierce she-Britons, apt to smite Their upward-climbing sisters down, Shall smoothe their plumes and oft invite The brood to town. 45