TO MY FRIEND, UPON THE DISPENSARY. As when the People of the Northern Zone Thus We, who lately as of Summers Heat Others proceed to Art by slow degrees, Whilst yours, like Pallas, from the Head of Jove Now let your Muse rise with Expanded Wings, H. BLOUNT. The Dispensary. Canto I. Speak, Goddess! since 'tis Thou that best canst tell, How ancient Leagues to modern Discord fell: And why Physicians were so cautious grown Of Others Lives, and lavish of their Own; How by a Journey to th' Elysian Plain Peace triumph'd, and old Time return'd again. Not far from that most celebrated Place, Where angry Justice shews her awful Face; Where little Villains must submit to Fate, That great ones may enjoy the World in State; There stands a †Dome, Majestick to the Sight, And sumptuous Arches bear its oval Height; A golden Globe plac'd high with artful Skill, Seems, to the distant Sight a gilded Pill: This Pile was, by the Pious Patron's Aim, Rais'd for a Use as Noble as its Frame: * Old Baily. + College of Physicians. Die Verszählung fehlt in den Originaldrucken, sowie in den Gesamtausgaben. 1 tell1 3 And why Whence 'twas, 1-4 || cautious ] frugal1 4 others 1-4• 8 || own; 1-4.6 8 Anmerkung unter dem Text in off. und W1; ebenso in V. 11. Die Notenzeichen stehen im Text der Originalausgaben immer vor dem Wort, zu dem sie gehören. 10 state; 14 14 Seems || Sight 1-4 15 was1 16 Frame;1 5 10 15 Nor did the Learn'd Society decline While the more Loose flow from the vital Urn, And in full Tides of Purple Streams return; How lambent Flames from Life's bright Lamp arise, 20 their Search ] they still 1—4. 6—11 21-23 lauteten in 1-4 They find her dubious now, and then, as plain; 4 1 Here, she's too sparing, there [sparing; there, 2-4] profusely vain. 21 shade W1|| lies W1 32-33 fehlen in 1-3 33 emanations || eyes; 34 How, 2-3 While || Sluice, 2-3 || gentle] bring 1-4 35 To slake a] T'extinguish 1-4 || heats1 Heats 2-4 | show'rs;1 Show'rs; 2—4 36 Whence | Pow'rs 2-4 39 Pleasure, 1-4 2.-4 T'exert its primogenial Heat and stretch to Man. 45 50 55 Hence 'tis we wait the wond'rous Cause to find, How Body acts upon impassive Mind. 43 T'extend its recent Form, and stretch to Man. 1-4. 9-11. wi To work its brittle Being up to Man." 50 fire, 1-4 9 51 S] Scarsdale W1 52 th' Olympick's 1—4 53 Whence tropes to F-ch, [F-h, 2-4] or impudence to S- 1–4 tropes || F-h, Finch, W1S-n. Sloane; Wi 54-55 lauten in 1-6: Why Atticus polite, Brutus severe, Why Me-nd [M-n 2—4 Me-n muddy, M-gue why clear? 54 W1 haben VV. 54-55 der 1–6 als Anmerkung zu V. 53. 56 wondrous 1-4. 6 63 Corporeal Substances, and Things unseen. 64-65 fehlen in 1–6. 67 lie 1-4. 1-6 58 part 1-4. 6 9-11 unseen; 60 65 But now no grand Enquiries are descry'd, Mean Faction reigns, where Knowledge shou'd preside, And Paean's Beams with fading Lustre shine. That nothing there but sullen Silence reigns. This Place so fit for undisturb'd Repose, 68 But now those great Enquiries are no more, 1—6 69 And Faction Skulks, [skulks, 2-6] where Learning shone before: 1—6 70-72 fehlen in 1—6 70 increas'd 10. 11 w1 71 conceal, 9-10 75 looks 1-4 9 76 midnight-watchings Midnight-watching, 11 drown'd 1 78 sullen] empty 1-4. 6 77 complains, 4 79 Thus' Druckfehler] This 1—4∙ 6 82 The careless Deity supinely nods. 1Hinter 82 folgen in 14: His leaden Limbs at gentle ease are laid, With [When 3-4] Poppys [Poppies 2-4] and dull Night-shade o're [Nightshade o'er 2-4] him spread; bing] numming" Druckfehler Brain 1-4. 6 89 dark] dull 1—4 his thoughtless 1—4 83-87 fehlen in 14 85 num86 drowsy" 88 lethargick 1—4 | 90 hang ling'ring o'er his ] bedew |