And this thy wines retain.
No harm lurks in the fire
That helps thee to inspire
The heart and spur the brain.’[150]
So far from causing inconvenience, he claims for Champagne the property of keeping off both gout and gravel, neither of which, he says, is known in Reims and its neighbourhood, and continues:
‘When on the fruit-piled board,
Thy cups, with nectar stored,
Commence their genial reign,