"The craving Wife the force of Magick tries, And Philters for th’ unable Husband buys: The Potion works not on the part design’d; But turns his Brain, and stupifies his Mind. The sotted Moon-Calf gapes, and staring on, Sees his own Business by another done: A long Oblivion, a benumning Frost, Constrains his Head; and Yesterday is lost: Some nimbler Juice would make him foam, and rave, Like that Cæsonia to her Caius gave: Who, plucking from the Forehead of the Fole His Mother’s Love, infus’d it in the Bowl: The boiling Blood ran hissing in his Veins, Till the mad Vapour mounted to his Brains. The Thund’rer was not half so much on Fire, When Juno’s Girdle kindled his Desire."
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Juvenal, Satire VI; John Dryden, The Satires of Juvenalis (1693)
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