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(Whether at Morn, when Turkish Berry aduft
(Fell Enemy to Sleep, and Caufe of Spleen)
Or Indian Leaf fuffus'd, with Fragrance bland
Comforts the Maw, or folid Oat-meal-Food,
Hight hafty Pudding-------

Which heats the Blood of Caledonian Swains,

And warms the North; Or roaft and boil'd at Noon;
Or well fawe'd Herbage with cold Lamb at Ev'n)
Full Fraught retires. To Houfe uprais'd on Mounta
He hies, vile Eminence, convenient Site r
For Work unfav'ry, or to Garden fide,

- Where Breath of May and Odoriferous Flow'es
Do qualify with Sweets the offenfive Stent:
Or where cool Rivalet with limpid Stream,
Running fat by, precipitates the Filth,
Purging the Dome; Alcides fo of old
Th' Augaan Stable sinc'd; thither repairs
The loaded Swain incontinent, to pay
Tribute of Ordure to the Go bs of Earth,
Brethren of Molock. Not the Eastern Slurine
Frequented more in Arabie the bless'd,
Where uplift Prophet, dubious, hangs in Air,
The Strife of Magnets. In the Dome appears
A Graduated Seat, for infant Bum

Or veterean, built of Tree, Norvegian Spoil,
Or fuch as Dantzick yields, the Prince of Woods.
Here triple Hole difcovers hollow Womb

Of Earth, dreadful to Sight, abhorr'd to Smell,

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Up, from the putid Dungeon Fumes ingrate
Afcending, hurt the Senfe. Careful to `ken,!
Left hapless he may light on foul Remains
Of dirty Clown, with Galligaskins loos'd,
(Oft fatal to the Purfe, or Watch in Fob,
Which well rewards Goldfinders filthy Toil,)
Bending Oblique, his Poftern he applies
To perforated Board, as erft were wont
Apollo's Votaries to fubmit their Ear

To Delphick Tripod, and receive Refponfe

From Pagan Shrine; So here from end reverfe,

Sounds are immitted, to invoke the Sprites

Of Darkness, and alarm the Powers of Night.
And now the Swain at ease, compos'd to vent

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With Nitre, Conflict of Elements, So roars, dir. 410

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The darkfome Cell, with repercuffive Sound
Of postern Gun disploded, which reports
Afar, and ecchoes from the vast Abyfs.
Thus he, thrice happy, in luxuriant Stools
Voids the fucceffive Gatherings of his Meals.
As when a Bee with balmy Juice replete,
And liquid Spoils of Gardens, taken short,
Flies haftily to waxen privý House,

In Hive, or hollow'd Oak, or Chimney top,
(Besmear'd with Soot, of Tafte contrariant)
Or ruinous Wall; and laxative, refunds
(Sweet Voidance) all the Bev'rage of the Day.
Such Bleffings Heaven ever has deny'd
To finful Mortals, when aftringent Food,
Or Body-binding Claret barrs the Port,
Painful Coercion, Caufe of Inward Heats,
And fierce Distortions of Face and Trunk,
The GOD S vouchfafe me gentle Stools and Ale
Mean time a foft Abfterfive is prepar'd,

By Foliage of Fields or Books fupply'd, .

Of verdurous Plant, cool Herb, or pliant Dock,,
Delusive if unfolded; or Trefoyl,

I.ERNE'S vegetable Pride; or Hay,

Fodder of Man and Beaft; or above all

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Love-labour'd Sonnet; or fome fenfelefs Rhime:
On the disdainful Nymph; or poor Conceit
Of paultry Scribler, ftarved as himself,
Be it in Verfe or Profe; or finart Lampoon

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On Church and State; All read with profit here:
Or Dutch-Man's Commentary, long and dulk;
Or venomous Work of Critick, or Divine
Polemick; nor might Jove himself difdain
B's foul Paper at Coeleftial Stools.
These straw the Place, and fill the mural Voids,
And claim the fundamental Office to wipe Buin.
Wonderful Bum! Subject of Modern * Wit
And hidden Caufe, for to thy fecret Pow'r
And kindly Operations, Nature owes

Motions of Wit and Mirth and joyous Thoughts,
When thou art open, Fancy flows apace;
But when retentive, Merriment's entranc'd
In Spleen, and lies in clouded Brain

Incarcerated; Medicinal † Wood

Thy Porter, opes and fhuts thy folding Doors
Still kind to me, propitious to my Verse.

* Bargains.

† Rhubarb,

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Andorid carpoff at owais qada

Upon a Gentleman fitting upon a Cremona Fiddle.

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E Lads and ye Laffes, that live at * Long-Leat, Where, they fay, there's no end of good Drink and good Meats dodal si Lanato, da

Where the Poor fill their Bellies, the Rich receive Ho

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nour;

great and fo good is the Lord of the Manour.

Sing Down, Down, Hey Derry Down.

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Ye Nymphs and ye Swains, that inhabit the Place,
Give ear to my Song, of a Fiddle's hard Cafe;
For it is of a Fiddle, a fweet Fiddle 1 fing;

A fofter and fweeter did never wear String.
Sing Down, &c.

A fine Seat of Lord Weymouth's.

III. Melpomene

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