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 In order rang'd succeeded, Healths that ting'd The Dulcet Wine with a more charming Gust.

Now each the Mistress by whose scorching Eyes Fir'd, tosts Cosmelia Fair, or Dulcibella, Or Sylvia Comely Black with jetty Eyes Piercing, or Airy Celia sprightly Maid. Insensibly thus flow Unumber'd Hours; Glass succeeds Glass, till the Dircean God Shines in our Eyes, and with his Fulgent Rays Enlightens our glad Looks with lovely Die; All Blithe and Jolly that like Arthur's Knights Of Rotund Table, Fam'd in Pristrin Records, Now most we seem'd, such is the Power of Wine.

Thus we the winged Hours in harmless Mirth, And Joys Unsully'd pass, till Humid Night Has half her Race perform'd, now all abroad Is hush'd and silent, nor the Rumbling Noise Of Coach or Cart, or smoaky Link-Boys call Is heard; but Universal Silence Reigns: When we in Merry Plight, Airy and Gay, Surpriz'd to find the Hours so swiftly flie, With hasty knock, or Twang of Pendant Cord Alarm the Drowsy Youth from slumb'ring Nod; Startled he flies, and stumbles o're the Stairs Erroneous, and with busie Knuckles plies