Of fatal woes; a cough that foams with blood, 200
Asthma, and feller Peripneumonie,[7]
Or the slow minings of the hectic fire.
Th’ athletic fool, to whom what heav’n deny’d
Of soul is well compensated in limbs,
Oft from his rage, or brainless frolic, feels 205
His vegetation and brute force decay.
The men of better clay and finer mould
Know nature, feel the human dignity;
And scorn to vie with oxen or with apes.