Learn prick-song, and my merry odes rehearse:
Many a care is charm'd by verse.
Epode III. To Maecenas.
In time to come, if such a crime should be
As Parricide, (foul villany!)
A clove of garlic would revenge that evil;
(Rare dish for ploughmen, or the Devil!)
Accursed root! how does it jounce and claw!
It works like ratsbane in my maw.