SATAN, to ruin Mankind in the Root,
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The universal Queen, betray'd with Fruit;
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A single Apple forfeits Adams Crown;
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The Curse of GOD went with the Apple down.
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E'er since, that Sex, tho' fair, with charming Shapes,
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Are Sodoms Apples, and Gommorrahs Grapes;
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They have the Apple's ruddy Cheek and Skin:
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But ah! the Serpent hides himself within.
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Was't not enough to taste the damning Tree,
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But you must guzzle down that cursed Tea;
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A Plant which in the Devil's Garden grew,
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By which a second Time he poisons you.
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It's numerous Trains of Mischief who can tell;
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Tea hath dispatch'd a thousand Souls to Hell.
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From whence doth starting of the Nerves proceed?
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Whence comes the paraletick Hand and Head?
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Whence does our Sloth and Idleness arise?
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What hatches all our Calumnies and Lies?
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What makes backbiting to be Alamode?
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What spreads our lewd lascivious Songs abroad?
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What makes our Pride and Poverty increase?
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What busks the Ladies in the Harlot's Dress?
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What makes the Toliet overspread with Cards?
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What makes our Daughters Whores, and ruins Lairds?
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What keeps the Whig and Tory in a Battle?
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What dwindles down good Sense to tittle tattle?
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What makes young Miss lisp Oaths with English Air?
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What makes the Matron loll in Elbow-Chair;
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Forget her BIBLE for her China Ware?
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What blows the Coal, and kindles all our Strife?
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What gives a Husband Horns, and damns the Wife?
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If whence these Mallieures flow, you do not see,
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Believe my Word, The Fountain-head is TEA.
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