O’erflow; a short relief from former ills.

Beneath repeated shocks the wretches pine;

The vigour sinks, the habit melts away; 140

The chearful, pure and animated bloom

Dies from the face, with squalid atrophy

Devour’d, in sallow melancholy clad.

And oft the sorceress, in her sated wrath,

Resigns them to the furies of her train; 145

The bloated Hydrops, and the yellow fiend

Ting’d with her own accumulated gall.