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 There are whose study is of smells,
 * And to attentive schools rehearse

How something mixed with something else
 * Makes something worse.

Some cultivate in broths impure
 * The clients of our body—these,

Increasing without Venus, cure,
 * Or cause, disease.

Others the heated wheel extol,
 * And all its offspring, whose concern

Is how to make it farthest roll
 * And fastest turn.

Me, much incurious if the hour
 * Present, or to be paid for, brings

Me to Brundusium by the power
 * Of wheels or wings;