The powers of Reason, and usurp their place.
Creech.
As Nature is the subject of Physic and Poetry, we find, that the sons of Homer and Esculapius generally agree in giving salutary instructions to Mankind; but as the former convey their admonitions in the most agreeable manner, I shall conclude this Essay with two quotations from them.
The first Physicians by debauch were made,
Excess began, and sloth sustains the trade:
By chace our long-liv’d Fathers earn’d their food,
Toil strung their Nerves and purify’d their Blood, &c.
Dryden.
Quæ virtus et quanta, boni, sit vivere parvo,