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

Samuel Garth

Date:: 1699

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

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$* ■26 The Difpenfary. Like Heroes in Sea-Fights we feek Renown, To Fire fome hoftile Ship, we burn our own. That Jugler which another’s SFight will {how, « ’ \ But teaches how the World his own may know. Thrice hapf>y were thofe golden Days of old, When dear as Burgundy, Fti/ans were fold j \ When Patients chofeto die with better will. Than live to pay ths Apothecary's Bill. And cheaper than for our Affiftance call, • • , \ c Might go to Aix or Bourbon Spring and Fall- But now late Jars our Practices deteft. For Mines, when once difcover d, lofe th’Effeft. Dillention^ like fmall Streamy are firft begun, Scarce feen they rife, but gather as they run : So Lines that from their Parallel decline, ~ \ More they advance, the more they ftill dif-join. Tis therefore my Advice, in liafte we fend. And beg th£ Faculty to be our Friend. As ($

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