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You say y' are sweet; how sho'd we know Whether that you be sweet or no?
From Powders and Perfumes keep free; Then we shall smell how sweet you be.
Robert Herrick, "On a Perfum'd Lady,"
Hesperides, 1648
Construction of the main sewers in London was not begun until 1824 and was halting for the lack of a central governing authority in the city. As a result, Jonathan Swift's description of London after a "City Shower" in October 1710 was probably about right:
Sweepings from Butchers Stalls, Dung, Guts, and Blood,
Drown'd Puppies, stinking Sprats, all drench'd in Mud,