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The works of Mr. Thomas Brown

Serious and Comical, In Prose and Verse; In four volumes. The Fourth Edition, Corrected, and much Enlarged from his Originals never before publish'd. With a key to all his Writings

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The London Vintners Answer to Mr. Brown.
  
  
  
  
  
  
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The London Vintners Answer to Mr. Brown.

If what thou asserts, dear Thomas, be true,
It is to get rid of such Chap-men as you,
That I and my Brethren have learned to brew.
Whatever Ingredients we put in the Vat,
Whether Dogs-turd or Honey, no Matter for that;
For all our Design's but to poison a Rat.
He that dies by bad Wine, and not by the Halter,
Departs without Chime of Hopkins's Psalter,
And that you well know is no matter of Laughter.