"Light Graces dress'd in flowery wreaths "And tiptoe Joys their hands combine; "And Love his sweet contagion breathes, 320 "And laughing dances round thy shrine.

The listening shoals the quick contagion feel, Pant on the floods, inebriate with their zeal, 265 Ope their wide jaws, and bow their slimy heads, And dash with frantic fins their foamy beds.

I mind, Augusta, well that fatal day, When to thy ports with dire contagion fraught.

"This is my anti-pestilential drink," he remarked with a smile, "and it has preserved me from contagion hitherto.