The blendings of all mild medicaments,[[169]]
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Wherewith they ward the attacks of sickness sore.
I gave them many modes of prophecy;[[170]]
And I first taught them what dreams needs must prove
True visions, and made known the ominous sounds
Full hard to know; and tokens by the way,
And flights of taloned birds I clearly marked,—
Those on the right propitious to mankind,
And those sinister,—and what form of life