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A Farther Search after Claret

or, a Second Visitation of the vintners. A poem [by Richard Ames]

Ames, Richard

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XVII.

How vainly so e're the Red-Lyon may crack,
Of the once mighty friendship he had with Puntack;
Yet we found all his Favours were come to an end,
Since the Contracts he made with a Portugal Friend.