Insects of portentous shape—worms,

Wreathed serpents, asps, and tape-worms,

Ill-fashion’d fishes, dead and swimming,

And untimely fruits of women;

All the thirty skins infuse

In Alcohol’s Phlogistic dews.

Steep them—till the blessed Sun

Through half his mighty round hath run—

Hours twelve—the time exact

Their inmost virtues to extract.