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Advice to a Vintner. Mart. Epig. 19. l. 1.
The Hint taken from Quid te Tucca juvat.
What Planet distracts thee, what damnable Star,
To dash honest Bourdeaux with vile Bar a Bar?
Why should innocent Claret be murder'd by Port,
Thou'lt surely be sentenc'd in Bacchus's Court.
As for us Drunken Rakes, if we hang, or we drown;
Or are decently poyson'd, what loss has the Town;
But to kill harmless Claret, that does so much Good,
Is downright Effusion of true Christian Blood:
Ne'er think what I tell you is matter of Laughter,
Thou'lt be curst fort in this World, and damn'd for't hereafter.
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