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 A kindly warmth diffusing, Youthful fires Gild his dim Eyes, and paint with ruddy hue His Wrizzled Visage, ghastly wan before: Cordial restorative to mortal Man With copious Hand by bounteous Gods bestow'd.

Bacchus Divine, aid my adventrous Song, That with no middle flight intends to soar. Inspir'd, Sublime on Pegasean Wing By thee upborn, I draw Miltonic Air.

When fumy Vapours clog our loaded Brows With furrow'd Frowns, when stupid downcast Eyes Th's external Symptoms of remorse within, Our Grief express, or when in sullen Dumps With Head Incumbent on Expanded Palm, Moaping we sit, in silent sorrow drown'd: Whether Inviegling Hymen has trapand Th' unwary Youth, and ty'd the Gordian Knot Of jangling Wedlock Indissoluble; Worried all Day by loud Xantippes Din, And when the gentle Dew of sleep inclines With slumbrous Weight his Eye-lids She inflam'd With Uncloy'd Lust, and Itch Insatiable, His Stock exhausted, still yells on for more;