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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    This fhow’d, how fix’d as Fate Torquatus flood, That, the fam’d Pafiage of the Granick Flood. The Julian Eagles, here, their Wings difplay^ And there, like fetting Stars, the cDecii lay. This does Camillus as a God extol, That points at Manlius in the Capitol. How Cockles did the Tyber’s Surges brave. How Curtius plung’d into the gaping Grave. Great Cyrus, here, the Merles and Berjtans join. And, there, the wond’rous Battle of the Boyn. As th’ airy Meflenger the Fury fpy’d, A while his curdling Blood forgot to glide. Confufion on his fainting Vitals hung. And falt’ring Accents flutter’d on his Tongue. At lenth, affirming Courage, he effay’d T’inform the Fiend, then fhrunk into a Shade. The