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BEP(F.761.056
30 Nov 1761:32 (1370)
From Ames's Almanack for 1762. Urania descending from the
forky summet of Parnassus delivered me a rod, sent by the
whole choir of muses, to chastise the insolence of the
vintners, whom they never lov'd, and with whom they are
highly offended for a piece of rhyme directed to me in the
postscript of the Boston Weekly News-Letter, Thursday 25th
December 1760, on the receipt I published in my last year's
almanack to make currant wine.
Like priests of Baal they crav'd the muses aid,
But muses of the vintners are afraid;
For they infum'd that wicked furious crew,
Who Orpheus and his tuneful lyre o'erthrew:
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