Ebriate

One moment the retailer of tea, sugar, rum, and tobacco; the next, the ebriate solace of her ebriate mate.

Acme then her head reflecting, Kiss'd her sweet youth's ebriate eyes, With her rosy lips connecting Looks that glistened with replies.

Here before lords of the brain, why and till when, foolishly vain, Sett'st thou forth, crown of the feast, drunkard, thy soft ebriate strain?

Their seductive colouring ebriates, and libertinism reigns triumphant.

Make me with Thy stripes sore-stricken, With Thy cross my spirit quicken— Ebriate—but not with wine: Cheer me, and with mercy brighten, Shield me, and my darkness lighten, When the Day of Doom shall shine.

The fact that it had been given for religious purposes would seem to point to its being spent on good and charitable works, such as hospitals, bridges, improvement of the dwellings of the poor, especially in large cities , foundation of asylums for ebriates, and the like.