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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    Crabs Eyes as well with Tearl for Ufe may try, ' Or Highgate-Hill with lofty T Indus vie: So Glow-worms may compare with Titan's Beams, Or Hare-Court Pump with Aganippe's Streams, Our Manufacture now they meanly fell. And fpightfully th’ intrinfick V alue tell: Nay more: Inhumanly They’ll force us foon T’ exert our Charity, and be undone 5 Whilft We, at our Expence, muft perfevere, And, for another World, be ruin’d here. At this, fam’d Horofcope turn’d pale, and ftraight In Silence tumbl’d from his Chair of State. The Crowd in great Confufion fought the Door, And left the Magus fainting on the Floor. Whilft in his Breaft the Fury breath’d a Storm, Then fought her Cell, and reafiiim’d her Form. /■ Thus