The art of preserving health; a poem / [John Armstrong].

  • Armstrong, John, 1709-1779.
Date:
1744
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The art of preserving health; a poem / [John Armstrong]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    B, III. Preferring H E A L T H. S3 The flow difeafes of the torpid year ; Endlefs to name 5 to one of which alone, To that which tears the nerves, the toil of (laves Is pleafure : Oh ! from fetch inhuman* pains 365 May all be free who merit not the wheel! But from the burning Lion when the fun Pours down his fultry wrath; now while the blood Too much already maddens in the veins, And all the finer fluids thro’ the skin 370 Explore their flight; me, near the cool cafcade Reclin’d, or fauntring in the lofty grove, No needlefs flight occafion (hould engage To pant and fweat beneath the fiery noon. Now the frefh morn alone and mellow eve 315 To fhady walks and active rural fports Invite. But, while the chilling dews defeend. May nothing tempt you to the cold embrace Of humid skies : Tho’ ’tis no vulgar joy M 2 To