| Text | Lines 65-7 use an elaborate image from alchemy Drunkeness will make the king's attendants forget their duties because noxious vapours will befuddle their reason ('memory, the warder of the brain, /Shall be a fume'). 'Receipt' and 'limbeck' were items of apparatus used by alchemists. |
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