“Dum tremula hyberno Dipsas superimminet igni Et dextra cyathum sustinet, ore tubum, Alternis vicibus fumos hauritque, bibitque, Quam dat arundo sitim grata Geneva levat. Languenti hic ingens stomacho est fultura, nec alvus Nunc Hypochondriacis flatibus ægra tumet. Liberior fluit in tepido nunc corpore sanguis, Hinc nova vis membris et novus inde calor. Si quando audieris vetulam hanc periisse: Genevæ Dicas ampullam non renovasse suam.” Which being Englished, is “Dipsas, who shivers by her wintry fire, While her pipe’s smoke ascends in spire on spire, Alternate puffs and drinks—Geneva lays That thirst the weed is wont in her to raise. With this her belly propped, its pain expels; Intestine wind no more her stomach swells; A freer blood runs leaping through her frame, New heat, new strength recalls the ancient game. And should you hear she’s dead, the cause you’ll know Was that Geneva in her jug ran low.” In the _Dunciad_, which Pope wrote in 1726 (book iii., l. 143), we read,— “A second see, by meeker manners known, And modest as the maid that sips alone; From the strong fate of drams if thou get free, Another D’Urfey, Ward! shall sing in thee! Thee shall each ale-house, thee each gill-house[64] mourn, And answering gin-shops sourer sighs return.” An early allusion to Geneva is in a poem by Alexander Blunt, Distiller, 8vo, 1729, price 6_d._, called “Geneva,” addressed to the Right Honourable Sir R⸺ W⸺. It commences, “Thy virtues, O Geneva! yet unsung By ancient or by modern bard, the muse In verse sublime shall celebrate. And thou O W⸺ statesman most profound! vouchsafe To lend a gracious ear: for fame reports That thou with zeal assiduous dost attempt Superior to _Canary_ or _Champaigne_ Geneva salutiferous to enhance; To rescue it from hand of porter vile, And basket woman, and to the bouffet Of lady delicate and courtier grand Exalt it; well from thee may it assume The glorious modern name of _royal_ BOB!” Though “Brandy cognac, Jamaica Rum, and costly Arrack” are alluded to, there is no mention of Hollands in the poem, which is a defence of _Geneva_ against _ale_. In this poem a statement is contained that Geneva was introduced by William III., and that he himself drank it.