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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    To you, ye delicate, I write j for you I tame my youth to philofophic cares, I o And grow Hill paler by the midnight lamps. Not to debilitate with timorous rules A hardy frame; nor needlefly to brave Unglorious dangers, proud of mortal ftrength j Is all the leffon that in whollbme years 15 Concerns the ftrong. His care were ill bellow’d Who would with warm effeminacy nurle The thriving oak, which on the mountain’s brow Bears all the blafts that fweep the wintry heav’d. Behold the labourer of the glebe, who toils lo In dull, in rain, in cold and fultry skies: Save but the grain from mildews and the flood, Nought anxious he what fickly liars afcend. He knows no laws by Efculapius given; He lludies none. Yet him nor midnight fogs Infeft,