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By perforating banks and bounds

’Twixt vaults and wells and burying-grounds.

For such good management ensures

Against expense in digging sewers;

Because a well, ’tis very plain,

Serve all its neighborhood for a drain.

These things accomplish’d ’twill be very

Correct their relatives to bury

Scarce under ground, in the most populous

And busy part of the metropolis.

For ’twould be decorous, at least.

In memory of the dear deceased,

At once to answer two good ends,

To drink to and to drink our friends.

Thus Artemisia, ’twas I think,

Made her dead husband diet drink,

And thereby, probably enough,

Saved gallipots of doctor’s stuff.

Proceed to scoop each populous place in

To something very like a basin,

And let the centre of your mart

Be on or near the lowest part.

Well, after all these things are finish’d,

Let no man’s efforts be diminish’d,

But this good maxim keep in view,

That nought is done if aught’s to do.

Then fall too, gentlemen, and grub

Up every root and tree and shrub,

Each trace of vegetation found