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[Socrates and Aristotle]
Socrates and AristotleSucked no wit from a Leather Bottle;
For surely I think a man as soon may
Find a needle in a bottle of hay:
But if the Black Iack a man often toss over,
'Twill make him as drunk as any philosopher;
When he that makes Iacks from a peck to a quart,
Conjures not, though he lives by the black art.
And I wish, &c.
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