The Englishmans Docter Or, The Schoole of Salerne. Or, Physicall Obseruations for the perfect Preseruing of the body of Man in continuall health [by Sir John Harington] |
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Ad Librum.
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Ad Librum.
Go booke, and (like a Marchant) new ariu'd,Tel in how strange a traffick thou hast thriu'd
Vpon the Country which the Sea-god saues,
And loues so dere, he bindes it round with waues:
Cast Anchor thou, and impost pay to him
Whose Swans vpon the brest of ISIS swim;
But to the people that do loue to buy,
(It skils not for how much) each Nouelty,
Proclaime an open Mart, and sell good cheap,
What thou by trauell and much cost doest reape.
Bid the Gay Courtier, and coy-Ladie come,
The Lawyer, Townsman, & the country-groom,
Tis ware for all: yet thus much let them know,
There are no drugs here fetcht from Mexico.
Nor gold from India, nor that stinking smoake,
Which English gallants buy, themselus to choak.
Nor Silkes of Turkie, nor of Barbary,
Those luscious Canes, where our rich Sugars lie:
Nor those hot drinks that make our wits to dance
which make vs clip our English: nor those wares
Of fertile Belgia, whose wombe compares
With all the world for fruit, tho now with scarres
Her body be all ore defac't by warres:
Go, tel them what thou bringst, exceeds the welth
Of all these Contries, for thou btingst them helth.
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