Truth in Fiction Or, Morality in Masquerade. A Collection of Two hundred twenty five Select Fables of Aesop, and other Authors. Done into English Verse. By Edmund Arwaker |
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FABLE XXXVII. The Physician and Patient:
Or, Death in the Pot.
A try'd Physician, whose applauded Skill
had Cur'd more Patients than some others Kill,
On a Sick Libertine long Time did wait,
But by no Methods cou'd prevent his Fate.
He Dy'd: The Doctor was desir'd to guess
The Reason why his Art had no Success.
He said, No Physick cou'd the Patient save,
Whose own Intemp'rance brought him to his Grave.
had Cur'd more Patients than some others Kill,
On a Sick Libertine long Time did wait,
But by no Methods cou'd prevent his Fate.
He Dy'd: The Doctor was desir'd to guess
The Reason why his Art had no Success.
He said, No Physick cou'd the Patient save,
Whose own Intemp'rance brought him to his Grave.
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The MORAL.
‘The Bane of Life, is Riot and Excess,‘When, what shou'd nourish Nature, do's oppress;
‘And fills (thro' Superfluity of Food)
‘The Brain with Fumes, with Crudities the Blood:
‘But in one Instance do's a Kindness shew,
‘What it uneasie makes, it shortens too.
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