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PC.768.105
5 Sep 1768:2552 (86)
From the London Chronicle.
Glee and Grand Chorus.
By Dr. Arne.
PUNCH, THE MEDIUM OF LIFE.
You ask me, dear Jack, for an emblem that's rife.
And clearly explains the true medium of life;
I think I have hit it, as sure as a gun,
For a bowl of good punch, and the medium are one,
When lemon and sural so happily meet,
The acid's corrected by mixing the sweet,
The water and spirit so luckily blend,
That each from th'extreme does the other defend.
Then fill up the bowl, rot sorrow and strife;
A bumper my boys--To the Medium of Life,
Which keeps our frail state in a temper that's meet,
Contended in blending the sour with the sweet.
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