Through viewless conduits spirits to dispense;

The springs of motion from the seat of sense.

'Twas not the hasty product of a day,

But the well-ripened fruit of wise delay.

He, like a patient angler, ere he strook,

Would let them play a while upon the hook.

Our healthful food the stomach labours thus,

At first embracing what it straight doth crush.

Wise leaches will not vain receipts obtrude,

While growing pains pronounce the humours crude: