Norfolk Punch. An Incantation
Anon
Genre: | Extract, Poetry, Drollery |
Publications extracted: | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine |
Subjects: | Chemistry, Medical Practitioners, Museums, Monstrosities |
Refers to 'Nantz' (Brandy) as being 'By Arabia's chemic skill, / Sublimed, condensed, in trickling still'. Directs the removal of the skins of thirty oranges and lemons, continuing: 'Then, as doctors wise preserve / Things from nature's course that swerve, / Insects of portentous shape—worms, / Wreathed serpents, asps, and tape-worms, / Ill-fashioned fishes, dead and swimming, / And untimely fruits of women; / All the thirty skins infuse / In Alcohol's Phlogistic dews'. (46) |
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