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Poesis Rediviva

or, Poesie Reviv'd. By John Collop
 
 

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Against Phlebotomy to a Leech.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Against Phlebotomy to a Leech.

Philosophy ends where Physick doth begin:
'Tis strangely true, for few admit it in.
Tell stories of Corruption of the blood;
What's once corrupt, can it return to good?
To th' habit from privation, how's recesse?
Phlebotomy's Key not loosing rottennesse.

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Or opening, can't distinguish good from bad?
Would each blood-sucking Leech the knowledge had.
The treasury of life they'd not exhaust,
Take th' price of blood, while life with blood is lost.
To Natures countermining not intent,
To let death in, and life out give a vent.
More merciful Turks thus blood do never spill,
Under pretence of help, nor do they kill.
Lest to his bloody art th' Leech too much trust,
To take him off we need from graves fetch dust.