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

  • Samuel Garth
Date:
1699
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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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    But dull Oblivion guards his peaceful Bed, And lazy Fogs bedew his thoughtlefs Head, As at full length the pamper’d Monarch lay, Batt’mtig in Bale, and dumb ring Life away; A fpightful Noife his downy Chains unties, t Hafres forward, and encreafes as it flies, [engage, Firftiome to cleave the ftubborn Flint Thl iuild,% of the Dif- Till urg’d by Blows,it fparkles into Rage. pen^ry' Some temper Lute, fomp fpacious Veflels move $ Tliefe Furnaces erect, and Thofe approve. Here Phyals in nice Difcipline are fet. There Gally-pots are rang’d in Alphabet. In this place. Magazines of Pills you fpy $ |n that, like Forrage, Flerbs in Bundles lye, While lifted Pefries, brandilh’d in the Air, Defcenfl in Peals, and Civil Wars declare. Loud
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