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1667–1745

ONIONS

Jonathan Swift

Come, follow me by the smell, Here are delicate onions to sell; I promise to use you well. They make the blood warmer,

You'll feed like a farmer; For this is every cook's opinion, No savoury dish without an onion; But, lest your kissing should be spoil'd,

Your onions must be thoroughly boil'd: Or else you may spare Your mistress a share, The secret will never be known:

She cannot discover The breath of her lover, But think it as sweet as her own.

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