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But Jove-born Helen otherwise, meantime,

Employed, into the wine of which they drank

A drug infused, antidote to the pains

Of grief and anger, a most potent charm

For ills of every name.[13] Whoe’er his wine

So medicated drinks, he shall not pour

All day the tears down his wan cheeks, although

His father and his mother both were dead,

Nor even though his brother or his son