Hardly to nutrimental chyle subdues 210

The softest food: unfinish’d and deprav’d,

The chyle, in all its future wand’rings, owns

Its turbid fountain; not by purer streams

So to be clear’d, but foulness will remain.

To sparkling wine what ferment can exalt 215

Th’ unripen’d grape? Or what mechanic skill

From the crude ore can spin the ductile gold?

Gross riot treasures up a wealthy fund

Of plagues: but more immedicable ills