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VOCAL ENCHANTRESS. 3C9
Let grave fober mortals my maxims condemn,
I never fhall alter my conduct for them
I care not how much they my meafures decline,
Let them have their own humour—and I will have mine.
Wine, prudently us'd, will our fenfes improve ;
'Tis the fpring-tide of life and the fuel of love;
And Venus ne'er look'd with a fmile fo divine
As when Mars bound his head with a branch of the vine.
Then come, my dear charmer ! thou nymph half divine !
Firft pledge me with kifles—next pledge me with wine :
Then giving and taking, in mutual return,
The torch of our loves fhall eternally burn.
But fhould'ft thou my paflion for wine difapprove,
My bumper I'll quit to be blefs'd with thy love ;
For, rather than forfeit the joys of my lafs,
My bottle I'll break and demolifh my glafs.
SONG CLXIV.
PHILLIDA AND CORYDON.
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