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4 But I, whom griping Penury surrounds, And Hunger, sure Attendant upon Want, With scanty Offals, and small acid Tiff (Wretched Repast!) my meagre Corps sustain: Then Solitary walk, or doze at home In Garret vile, and with a warming Puff Regale chill'd Fingers; or from Tube as black As Winter-Chimney, or well-polish'd Jet, Exhale Mundungus, ill-perfuming Scent: Not blacker Tube, nor of a shorter Size Smoaks Cambro-Britain (vers'd in Pedigree, Sprung from Cadwalader and Arthur, Kings Full famous in Romantick Tale) when he O'er many a craggy Hill, and barren Cliff, Upon a Cargo of fam'd Cestrian Cheese, High over-shadowing rides, with a design To vend his Wares, or at th' Arvonian Mart, Or Maridunum, or the Ancient Town Yclip'd Brechinia, or where Vaga's Stream Encircles Ariconium, fruitful Soil! Whence flow Nectareous Wines, that well may vie With Massic, Setin, or renown'd Falern.


 * Thus while my joyless Minutes tedious flow,

With Looks demure, and silent Pace, a Dun, Horrible Monster! hated by Gods and Men, To my Aerial Citadel ascends, With Vocal Heel thrice thund'ring at my Gate, With hideous Accent Thrice he calls; I know Rh