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Pocula Castalia

The Authors Motto. Fortunes Tennis-Ball. Eliza. Poems. Epigrams. &c. By R. B. [i.e Robert Baron]
  

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XLV. Perfumed corruption.

You that quaffe Amber, and with Musk-cats lie,
Embalming your corrupt bodies 'fore you die;
Who rottennesse to make sweet by Perfumes think
Lose coine and time to gain a dearer stink.