The dispensary : a poem in six canto's [sic] / [Sir Samuel Garth].

  • Garth, Samuel, Sir, 1661-1719.
Date:
1709
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Credit: The dispensary : a poem in six canto's [sic] / [Sir Samuel Garth]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Where Muflitoom Libels filently retire ^ And, Toon as born, with Decency expire. Upon a Couch of Jett in thefe Abodes, Dull Night# his melancholy Con fort, nods. No Ways and Means their Cabinet employ •, But their dark Hours they wade in barren Joy. Nigh this Recefs, with Terror they furvey, Where Death maintains his dread tyrannick Sway * In the clofe Covert of a Cyprefs Grove, Where Goblins frisk, and airy Spe&res rove. Yawns a dark Cave, mod formidably wide ^ And there the Monarch's Triumphs are defcry’d* Within its dreadful Jaws thofe Furies wait, Which execute the harfh Decrees of Fate. * Febrrs is fird : The Hagg relentlefs hears. The Virgin’s Sighs ^ and fees the Infant’s Tears, la her parch’d Eye-balls fiery Meteors reign And redlefs Ferments revel in each Vein. Then f Hydrops next appears among the Throng i Bloated, and big, fhe flowly fails along. But, like a Mifer, in Excefs, fhe’s poor; And pines for Third amidd her wat’ry Store. Now loathfom $ Lepra, that offenfive Sprighc, With foul Eruptions dain’d, offends the Sight. She’s deaf to Beauty’s fofc-perdiading Pow’r : Nor can bright Thebe's Charms her Bloom fecure* Whilft meagre || Ththtfis gives a iilent Blow *v Her Stroaks are fure ^ but her Advances, flow. j Feapsr, + DropJiCo ^ Lcprojie, 1! Confim^tiov^ i ;vs