“To Sickness and cruel Disease are assign’d
A part of the Sorrows which trouble Mankind;
But do we not see how Mankind are agreed
To be sick unto Death when there can be no Need?
Why faints the soft Nymph? Why the Vapours and Spleen?
What can Nameless Complaints and Infirmities mean— 271
The pain of a Moment, the Headache at will,
Or the languor that’s cur’d without Julep or Pill?
Why riots the Youth, so unhappily sleek?
Why poisons the Maid the pure Blood in her Cheek?