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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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LVII.

If all be not lyes which Philosophers tell us,
(For History paints 'em as honest brave fellows)
That in all kind of Species there's not such a Creature,
As Griffin e're yet was produc'd by Old Nature:
So the Master assures, who lives at that Sign,
He believes that in London there's no Claret-Wine.