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

  • Armstrong, John, 1709-1779.
Date:
1748
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The art of preserving health; a poem, in four books / by John Armstrong. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f Attraft thee flill to toil for power or gold *, Sweetly thou mayft thy vacant hours poflefs In Hampdead, courted by the weftern wind \ Or Greenwich, weaving o’er the winding flood i2Q Or lofe the world amid the fylvan wilds Of Dulwich, yet by barbarous arts unfpoil’d. Green rife the Kentifh hills in chearful air: But on the marfhy plains that Effex fpreads Build not, *nor reft too long thy wandering feet. 135 For on a ruftic throne of dewy turf. With baneful fogs her aching temples bound, Quartana there preftdes; a meagre fiend Begot by Eurus, when his brutal force Comprefs’d the fiothful Naiad of the fens. 130 From fuch a mixture fprung this fitful peft. With fcverifli blafts fubdues the fick’ning land : Cold tremors come, and mighty love of reft, Convulfive yawnings, lafiltude, and pains That fling the burden’d brows, fatigue the loins, 135 And