Book I, 96: On Wine and Water

Nature and Grace, who ever tasted both,
Differ as much, as Wine and Water doth:
This clenses, (if not grosly stayn'd with Sin)
The outward Man: but scowers not, within:
That cheares the heart, & makes the Courage bold,
Quickens and warmes dead spirits that are cold:
It fires the Blood, and makes the Soule divine:
O hat my Water, Lord, were turnd to Wine!