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PANACEA:

Or, The Grand RESTORATIVE.

By the Same.
1 WELCOME to Baiae's streams, ye sons of spleen,
2 Who rove from spa to spa — to shift the scene.
3 While round the steaming fount you idly throng,
4 Come, learn a wholsome secret from my song.
5 Ye fair, whose roses feel th' approaching frost,
6 And drops supply the place of spirits lost:
7 Ye 'squires, who rack'd with gouts, at heav'n repine,
8 Condemn'd to water for excess in wine:
9 Ye portly cits, so corpulent and full,
10 Who eat and drink 'till appetite grows dull:
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11 For whets and bitters then unstring the purse,
12 Whilst nature more opprest grows worse and worse:
13 Dupes to the craft of pill-prescribing leaches:
14 You nod or laugh at what the parson preaches:
15 Hear then a rhyming quack, — who spurns your wealth,
16 And gratis gives a sure receipt for health.
17 No more thus vainly roam o'er sea and land,
18 When lo! a sovereign remedy at hand:
19 'Tis Temperance — stale cant! — 'Tis Fasting then;
20 Heaven's antidote against the sins of men.
21 Foul luxury's the cause of all your pain:
22 To scour th' obstructed glands, abstain! abstain!
23 Fast and take rest, ye candidates for sleep,
24 Who from high food tormenting vigils keep:
25 Fast and be fat — thou starveling in a gown:
26 Ye bloated, fast — 'twill surely bring you down.
27 Ye nymphs that pine o'er chocolate and rolls,
28 Hence take fresh bloom, fresh vigour to your souls.
29 Fast and fear not — you'll need no drop nor pill:
30 Hunger may starve, excess is sure to kill.

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Title (in Source Edition): PANACEA: Or, The Grand RESTORATIVE.
Author: Richard Graves
Themes: illness; injury; drugs; food; drink
Genres: heroic couplet; satire
References: DMI 26717

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Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. IV. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758], pp. 326-327. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.004) (Page images digitized by the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive from a copy in the archive's library.)

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