The dispensary : a poem in six canto's [sic] / [Anon].

  • Samuel Garth
Date:
1703
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The dispensary : a poem in six canto's [sic] / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cold and confus’d the guilty Lover flood, The Light forfook his Eyes, his Cheeks the Blood An icy Horrour fliiver’d in his Look, Then foftly in thefe gentle Words, He fpoke: Tell me,dear Shade,from whence Inch anxious care, Your Looks diforder’d, and your Bofom bare? Why thus you languifh like a drooping Flow’r, Crufh’d by the weight of fome unfriendly Shower? Your languid Looks, your late ill Conduct tell, - O that inftead of Trafli you’d taken Steel! Then as he (trove to clafp the fleeting Fair3 His empty Arms confefs’d th’impallive Air, From his Embrace thTmbody’d Speftre flies. And as (he mov’d, (lie chid him with her Eyes,