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Show Ouro JToi Soaxidlal Take of the toad the brain and ear-wax: bring The spider's fang, the adder's poison sting; I A lizard' eye-balls, tarantula's tongue : ! The ehigre's eggs, the fire-fly's maggot you up; Of newt the iris, armadillo's pall ; Cockchafer's grub, and scorpion, sting and all ; Two buzzard's beaks, first htrdene 1 in the tire; Four famished serpents just ready to expire: ex-pire: Allying asp, which sure the fang includes; in-cludes; A Salamander fluid, that exudes; A Ilea's proboscis, and a viper's eyes; Four printed scandals, three detected lies; A beetle's head, a locust's palate dried; And ten mosquitoes snouts in strychnine fried ; A waapV stiletto; flying-dragon's ears; These saturate with alligator's tears With alcohol then simmer in the 6Cull Of a black ape; fill the vessel full Reduce the mats, and add one screech-owl's screech-owl's eye; The mauls' tongue, cantharides the fly; Acoquelte's dimples, and arlunkey'snose. An idiot's brains, un hideous hydra's toes; A hornet's armor, and a wild boar's foam, A polecat's odor, and a Shanghai's comb (Harmless this last ingredient I trust, Save that a coxcomb always gives disgust;) dis-gust;) The burning froth from hydrophobics maw, A dragon's blood, a scolopendridae'a, claw ; Chameleon's thorax, monad's marrow, fine; A moth, a weevil, and an earwig's spine. Into the cauldron two apes' eyebrows fling j And fan the contents with a vampire's wing. Stir, stir the jelly with Attilla's steel, Ilis blood-stained dagger let the slanderer feel. Apply this mixture to the slanderer's tongue, Moistened with tears from slandered virtue vir-tue wrung; And should one dose of this prescription fail, And the dire venom of his tongue prevail, pre-vail, Just add a section of the slanderer's tale. Should the concocted poUons fail of cure, The last named virus, added, will be sure. |