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A POSSET FOR NATURE'S BREAKFAST, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Life scums the cream of beauty with time's spoon
Last Line: And with this meat doth nature please herself.
Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret
Subject(s): Health; Nature; Reason; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking


LIFE scums the cream of Beauty with Time's spoon,
And draws the claret-wine of Blushes soon;
Then boils it in a skillet clean of Youth,
And thicks it well with crumbled bread of Truth;
Sets it upon the fire of Life which does
Burn clearer much when Health her bellows blows
Then takes the eggs of fair and bashful Eyes,
And puts them in a countenance that's wise,
Cuts in a lemon of the sharpest Wit—
Discretion as a knife is used for it—
A handful of chaste Thoughts, double-refined,
Six spoonfuls of a noble and gentle Mind,
A grain of Mirth to give't a little taste,
Then takes it off for fear the substance waste,
And puts it in a basin of good Health,
And with this meat doth Nature please herself.





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