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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    / 2 2 The Difpenfary. No myftick Sounds from Hell's detefted Womb, In dusky Exhalations upwards come. And now to raife an Altar He decrees. To that devouring Harpy call’d Difeaje $ Then Flow’rs in Canifters he haftes to bring. The wither’d Product of a blighted Spring, With cold Solatium from the Pontic^ Shore, The Roots of Mandrake and Black EU,ebore. And on the Structure next he heaps a Load Of Sajfafras in Chips, and MaJlickyVood. Then from the Compter he takes down the File, And with Prefcriptions lights the folemnPile. Feebly the Flames on clumfie Wings afpire, And fmoth'ring Fogs of Smoke benight the Fire. With Sorrow he beheld the fad Portent, Then to the Hag thefe Orkotis he fent.
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