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 When this is done, there will be wanting still,
The just Reserve of Cloves and Candy'd Peel;
Nor can I blame you, if a Drop you take
Of Orange-Water, for Perfuming-sake.
But here the Nicety of Art is such,
There must not be too little, nor too much
If with Discretion you these Costs employ,
They quicken Appetite; if not, they cloy.

 Next, in your Mind this Maxim firmly root,
Never o'ercharge your Pye with Costly Fruit:
Oft let your Bodkin thro' the Lid be sent,
To give the kind imprison'd Treasure vent;
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Insensibly, by constant Fretting, waste,
And o'er-inform your Tenement of Paste.

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