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A Farther Search after Claret

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

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At the Bull-head we lookt, and were told that the Master,
'Cause Trading was low, and no other disaster,
Did modestly keeping a Tavern decline,
Thinking 't better to Deal in good Cyder than Wine.