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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    Beneath the gloomy Covert of an Yew, That taints the Grafs with fickly Sweats of Dew * No verdant Beauty entertains the Sight, But baneful Hemlock, and cold Aconite* There crawl'd the meager Monfter on the Ground, And breath'd a livid Peftilence around: A bald and bloated Toad-ftool rais’d her Head* The Plumes of boding Ravens were her Bed. Down her wan Cheeks (ulphureous Torrents flow. And her red haggard Eyes with Fury glow. Like zyEtna with Metallick Steams opprefs’d, She breaths a blue Eruption from her Breaft : Then rends with canker'd Teeth the pregnant Scrolls, Where Fame the A£ts of Demy-Gods enrolls. And as the rent Records in pieces fell, Each Scrap did fome Immortal Aftion tell. This