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[pg<br />

117]<br />

Inflaming wine, pernicious to mankind,<br />

Unnerves the limbs, and dulls the<br />

noble mind.<br />

Let chiefs abstain, and spare the<br />

sacred juice<br />

To sprinkle to the gods, its better<br />

use.<br />

By me that holy <strong>of</strong>fice were pr<strong>of</strong>aned;<br />

Ill fits it me, with human gore distain'd,<br />

To the pure skies these horrid hands<br />

to raise,<br />

Or <strong>of</strong>fer heaven's great Sire polluted<br />

praise.<br />

You, with your matrons, go! a spotless<br />

train,<br />

And burn rich odours in Minerva's<br />

fane.<br />

<strong>The</strong> largest mantle your full wardrobes<br />

hold,

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