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 With gazing Pleasure and Astonishment At Paradice, (Seat of our antient fire,) He thinks himself arriv'd, the Purple Grape In largest Clusters Pendant, grace the Vines Innumerous, in Fields Grottesque and Wild They with Implicit Curles the Oak entwine, And load with Fruit Divine her spreading Boughs; Sight most delicious, not an Irksom Thought, Or of left native Isle, or absent Friends, Or dearest Wife, or tender sucking Babe, His kindly treach'rous mem'ry now presents; The Jovial God has left no room for Cares.

Celestial Liquor, thou that didst inspire Maro and Flaccus, and the Grecian Bard, With lofty Numbers, and Heroic strains Unparalell'd, with Eloquence profound, And Arguments Convincive didst enforce Fam'd Tully, and Demosthenes Renown'd: Ennius first fam'd in Latin Song, in vain Drew Heliconian Streams, Ungrateful whet To Jaded Muse, and oft' with vain attempt Heroic Acts in Flagging Numbers dull With pains essay'd, but abject still and low, His Unrecruited Muse could never reach The mighty Theme, till from the Purple Font