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B. II. Too happy they! But wealth brought luxury, And luxury on sloth begot disease. Learn temperance, friends; and hear without disdain The choice of water.Thus the Coan sage Opin'd, and thus the learn'd of every school. What least of foreign principles partakes Is best: The lightest then; what bears the touch Of fire the least, and soonest mounts in air; The most insipid; the most void of smell. Such the rude mountain from his horrid sides Pours down; such waters in the sandy vale For ever boil, alike of winter frosts And summer's heat secure.The lucid stream, O'er rocks resounding, or for many a mile Hurl'd down the pebbly channel, wholesome yields Rh