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May the Babylonish curse	A
Straight confound my stammering verse	A
If I can a passage see	B
In this word perplexity	B
Or a fit expression find	C
Or a language to my mind	C
Still the phrase is wide or scant	D
To take leave of thee great plant	D
Or in any terms relate	E
Half my love or half my hate	E
For I hate yet love thee so	F
That whichever thing I shew	G
The plain truth will seem to be	B
A constrain'd hyperbole	B
And the passion to proceed	H
More from a mistress than a weed	H
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Sooty retainer to the vine	I
Bacchus' black servant negro fine	I
Sorcerer that mak'st us dote upon	J
Thy begrimed complexion	K
And for thy pernicious sake	L
More and greater oaths to break	L
Than reclaimed lovers take	L
'Gainst women thou thy siege dost lay	M
Much too in the female way	M
While thou suck'st the lab'ring breath	N
Faster than kisses or than death	N
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Thou in such a cloud dost bind us	O
That our worst foes cannot find us	O
And ill fortune that would thwart us	O
Shoots at rovers shooting at us	O
While each man thro' thy height'ning steam	P
Does like a smoking Etna seem	P
And all about us does express	Q
Fancy and wit in richest dress	Q
A Sicilian fruitfulness	Q
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Thou through such a mist dost shew us	Q
That our best friends do not know us	Q
And for those allowed features	Q
Due to reasonable creatures	Q
Liken'st us to fell Chimeras	Q
Monsters that who see us fear us	Q
Worse than Cerberus or Geryon	K
Or who first lov'd a cloud Ixion	K
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Bacchus we know and we allow	R
His tipsy rites But what art thou	R
That but by reflex canst shew	G
What his deity can do	G
As the false Egyptian spell	S
Aped the true Hebrew miracle	T
Some few vapours thou may'st raise	Q
The weak brain may serve to amaze	Q
But to the reins and nobler heart	U
Canst nor life nor heat impart	U
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Brother of Bacchus later born	K
The old world was sure forlorn	K
Wanting thee that aidest more	V
The god's victories than before	V
All his panthers and the brawls	Q
Of his piping Bacchanals	Q
These as stale we disallow	R
Or judge of thee meant only thou	R
His true Indian conquest art	U
And for ivy round his dart	U
The reformed god now weaves	Q
A finer thyrsus of thy leaves	Q
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Scent to match thy rich perfume	W
Chemic art did ne'er presume	W
Through her quaint alembic strain	K
None so sov'reign to the brain	K
Nature that did in thee excel	S
Fram'd again no second smell	S
Roses violets but toys	Q
For the smaller sort of boys	Q
Or for greener damsels meant	X
Thou art the only manly scent	X
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Stinking'st of the stinking kind	C
Filth of the mouth and fog of the mind	C
Africa that brags her foyson	K
Breeds no such prodigious poison	K
Henbane nightshade both together	Y
Hemlock aconite	C
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Nay rather	Y
Plant divine of rarest virtue	C
Blisters on the tongue would hurt you	C
'Twas but in a sort I blam'd thee	B
None e'er prosper'd who defam'd thee	B
Irony all and feign'd abuse	Q
Such as perplext lovers use	Q
At a need when in despair	Z
To paint forth their fairest fair	Z
Or in part but to express	Q
That exceeding comeliness	Q
Which their fancies doth so strike	A2
They borrow language of dislike	A2
And instead of Dearest Miss	Q
Jewel Honey Sweetheart Bliss	Q
And those forms of old admiring	B2
Call her Cockatrice and Siren	K
Basilisk and all that's evil	T
Witch Hyena Mermaid Devil	T
Ethiop Wench and Blackamoor	Z
Monkey Ape and twenty more	Z
Friendly Trait'ress loving Foe	F
Not that she is truly so	F
But no other way they know	F
A contentment to express	Q
Borders so upon excess	Q
That they do not rightly wot	C
Whether it be pain or not	C
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Or as men constrain'd to part	C
With what's nearest to their heart	C
While their sorrow's at the height	C
Lose discrimination quite	C
And their hasty wrath let fall	C2
To appease their frantic gall	C2
On the darling thing whatever	Z
Whence they feel it death to sever	Z
Though it be as they perforce	Q
Guiltless of the sad divorce	Q
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For I must nor let it grieve thee	B
Friendliest of plants that I must leave thee	B
For thy sake tobacco I	D2
Would do any thing but die	D2
And but seek to extend my days	Q
Long enough to sing thy praise	Q
But as she who once hath been	K
A king's consort is a queen	K
Ever after nor will bate	C
Any tittle of her state	C
Though a widow or divorced	C
So I from thy converse forced	C
The old name and style retain	K
A right Katherine of Spain	K
And a seat too 'mongst the joys	Q
Of the blest Tobacco Boys	Q
Where though I by sour physician	K
Am debarr'd the full fruition	K
Of thy favours I may catch	E2
Some collateral sweets and snatch	E2
Sidelong odours that give life	F2
Like glances from a neighbour's wife	F2
And still live in the by places	Q
And the suburbs of thy graces	Q
And in thy borders take delight	C
An unconquer'd Canaanite	C

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