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

  • John Armstrong
Date:
1744
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Credit: The art of preserving health; a poem / [John Armstrong]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    » B. III. Preferring HEALTH. 63 2,5 Infeft, nor thofe envenom’d (hafts that fly When rabid Sirius fires th’ autumnal noon. His habit pure with plain and temperate meals, Robuft with labour, and by cuftom fteel’d To every calualty of varied life; 3 o Serene he bears the peevilh eaftern blaft. And uninfected breaths the mortal South. / . . ' * * 1 Such the reward of rude and lober life $ Of labour fuch. By health the pealant’s toil Is well repaid $ if exercife were pain 3 5 Indeed, and temperance pain. By arts like thefe Laconia nurs’d of old her hardy Ions ; And Rome’s unconquer’d legions urg’d their way, Unhurt, thro’ every toil in every clime. Toil, and be ftrong. By toil the flaccid nerves 40 Grow firm, and gain a more compacted tone; The