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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    V Or facred country calls, with mellowing wine To moiften well the thirfty fuffrages 5 480 Say how, unfeafon’d to the midnight frays Of Comus and his rout, wilt thou contend - With Centaurs long to hardy deeds inur’d ? Then learn to revel $ but by flow degrees : By flow degrees the liberal arts are won $ 485 And Hercules grew ftrong. But when you fmooth The brows of care, indulge your feftive vein In cups by well-inform’d experience found The leaft your bane; and only with your friends. There are fweet follies, frailties to be feen 49 o By friends alone, and men of generous minds. ♦ f * 9 Oh! feldom may the fated hours return Of drinking deep! I would not daily tafte, Except when life declines, even fober cups. Weak