The art of preserving health; a poem / [John Armstrong].

  • John Armstrong
Date:
1744
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The art of preserving health; a poem / [John Armstrong]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    235 That thro’ the thirfty channels of the blood A fmooth diluted chyle may ever flow. The fragrant dairy from its cool recefs Its ne&ar acid or benign will pour To drown your third:; or let the mantling bowl 2,40 Of keen Sherbet the fickle tafte relieve. For with the vifcous blood the fimple ftream Will hardly mingle; and fermented cups Oft diflipate more moifture than they give. Yet when pale feafons rife, or winter rolls 245 His horrors o’er the world, thou may’ft indulge In feafts more genial, and impatient broach The mellow cask. Then too the fcourging air Provokes to keener toils than fultry droughts Allow. But rarely we luch skies blafpheme. 2,50 Steep’d in continual rains, or with raw fogs / ' Bedew’d, our feafons droop ; incumbent ftill A ponderous heaven o’erwhelms the finking foul. Lab’ring