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Nor in wide shoes your feet too loosely roll.
Of a black muzzle and long beard beware,
And let a skilful barber cut your hair;
Your nails be pick'd from dirt, and even par'd;
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Nor let your nasty nostrils bud with beard.
Cure your unsav'ry breath; gargle your throat;
And free your armpits from the ram and goat.In this expression, which is Ovid's in the main, the Romans bore with an idea that perhaps the delicacy of the moderns will be offended with. The smell of a ram or goat is very rank, and from those animals the proverb came.
Dress not, in short, too little or too much;
And be not wholly French nor wholly Dutch.
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Now Bacchus calls me to his jolly rites:Wine is favourable to lovers, inspiring them at once with boldness and vigour.
Who would not follow when a god invites?
He helps the poet, and his pen inspires;
Kind and indulgent to his former fires.
Fair Ariadne wander'd on the shore
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Forsaken now; and Theseus loves no more;
Loose was her gown, dishevel'd was her hair,
Her bosom naked, and her feet were bare;
Exclaiming, on the water's brink she stood,
Her briny tears augment the briny flood;
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She shriek'd and wept, and both became her face,
