The art of preserving health; a poem, in four books / by John Armstrong.

  • Armstrong, John, 1709-1779.
Date:
1748
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Credit: The art of preserving health; a poem, in four books / by John Armstrong. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ' / Grows vapid phlegm *, along the tender nerves 400 >» (To each flight impulfe tremblingly awake) A fubtle Fiend that mimics all the plagues Rapid and reftlefs fprings from part to part. The blooming honours of your youth are fallen ^ Your vigour pines *, your vital powers decay •, 405 \ Difeafes haunt you ; and untimely Age Creeps on, unfocial, impotent, and lewd. Infatuate, impious, epicure! to wafte The ftores of pleafure, chearfulnefs, and health 1 Infatuate alTwho make delight their trade, 410 And coy perdition every hour purfue. Who pines with Love, or in lafeivious flames Confumes, is with his own confent undone : He chufes to be wretched, to be mad j And warn’d proceeds and wilful to his fate. 415- But there’s a Faflion, whofe tempefluous fway Tears up each virtue planted in the breafl, And