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

  • Samuel Garth
Date:
1703
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Credit: The dispensary : a poem in six canto's [sic] / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Each Faculty in Blandishments they lull, Afpiring to be venerably dull. No learn’d Debates moleft their downy Trance3 Or difeompofe their pompous Ignorance: But undifturb’d, they loiter Life away, So wither Green, and bloflbm in Decay. Deep funk in Down, they, by my gentle Care, Avoid th’ Inclemencies of Morning Air, (Tray’r. And leave to tatter’d Crape the Drudgery of Mankind my fond propitious Pow’r has try5d. Too oft to own, too much to be deny’d. And, in return, I ask but fome Recefs, T’ enjoy th’ entrancing Extafies of Peace. But that, the Great NajJku’s Heroick Arms Has long prevented with his loud Alarms. Still my Indulgence with Contempt he flies. His Couch a Trench, his Canopy the Skies. No