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DRINKS. 1-291
In this extract the word is played upon, Geneva
suggesting both the habit of spirit-drinking and Cal-
vinistic doctrine.
When Pope wrote, the corrupted word " Gin "
had become common. In the Epilogue to the Satires,
I. 130.
" Vice thus abused, demands a nation's care ;
This calls the Church to deprecate our sin,
And hurls the thunder of our laws on gin."
Pope has added a note to this passage, to the effect
that gin had almost destroyed the lowest rank of
the people before it was restrained by Parliament
in 1736.
Another early allusion to Geneva is to be found in
Carmina Quadragesimaliuy Oxford, 1723, vol. i., p. 7,
in a copy of verses contributed by Salusbury Cade,
elected from Westminster to Ch. Ch. in 1714
The thesis of which Salusbury Cade maintained
the affirmative, is whether life consists in heat, or
in the original An vita consistat in calore ?
" Dum tremula hyberno Dipsas superimminet igni
Et dextra cyathum sustinet, ore tubum,
Alternis vicibus fumos hauritque, bibitque
Quam dat arundo sitim grata Geneva levat
Languenti hie ingens stomacho est fultura, nee alvus
Nunc Hypochondriacis flatibus aegra tumet
Liberior fluit in tepido nunc corpore sanguis,
Hinc nova vis membris et novus inde calor.
Si quando audieris vetulam hanc periisse : Genevae
Dicas ampullam non renovasse suam.
Which being Englished, is
Dipsas, who shivers by her wintry fire.
While her pipe's smoke ascends in spire on spire,
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