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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    4? He faid > and feal’d dT Engagement with a Kifs, Which was return'd by Younger Askaris j Who thus advanc’d: Each Word, Sir, you impart. Has fomething killing in it, like your Art, How much we to your boundlefs Friendship owe. Our Files can fpeak, and your Prefcriptions (how. Your Ink defcends in fuch exceffive Show’rs, BTis plain, you can regard no Health but ours. Whilft poor Pretenders trifle o’er a Cafe, You but appear, and give the Coup de Grace. Q that near Xanthus Banks you had but dwelt, When Ilium firffc Achaian f ury felt, The Flood had curs’d young Teleus’s Arm in vain, For troubling his choak’dStreams with heaps of fiaim No Trophies you had left for Greeks to raife. Their Ten Years Toil, you’d finifli’d in Ten Days. ry £ * si ‘ E Fate