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"No poppy-water half so good". Poppy-water, made by
boiling the heads of the white, black, or red poppy, was a
favourite eighteenth-century soporific:--'Juno shall give her
peacock 'poppy-water', that he may fold his ogling tail.'
(Congreve's 'Love for Love', 1695, iv. 3.)
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"With this he drives men's souls to hell".
Tu....
....virgaque levem coerces
Aurea turbam.--Hor. 'Od'. i. 10.
l. 57. "Moreover, Merc'ry had a failing".
Te canam....
Callidum, quidquid placuit, iocoso
Condere furto.--Hor. 'Od'. i. 10.
Goldsmith, it will be observed, rhymes 'failing' and 'stealing.'
But Pope does much the same:--
That Jelly's rich, this Malmsey healing,
Pray dip your Whiskers and your tail in.
('Imitation of Horace', Bk. ii, Sat. vi.)
Unless this is to be explained by poetical licence, one of these
words must have been pronounced in the eighteenth century as it
is not pronounced now.
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