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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    And foon the tender vegetable mals % 60 Relents; and Toon the young of thofe that tread - * \ The ftedfaft earth, or cleave the green abyfs, Or pathlefs sky. And if the Steer mull fall. In youth and vigor glorious let him die ; Nor ftay till rigid age, or heavy ails, 65 Abfolve him ill-requited from the yoke. Some with high forage, and luxuriant eafe, Indulge the veteran Ox 5 but wifer thou, From the bleak mountain or the barren downs, * Expert the flocks by frugal nature fed; 70 A race of purer blood, with exercife Refin’d and fcanty fare : For, old or young. The ftall’d are never healthy; nor the cramm’d. Not all the culinary arts can tame. To wholfome food, th’ abominable growth \ 75 Of reft and gluttony ; the prudent tafte Rejects like bane fuch loathfome lufcioufnefs. The