[CHAPTER XXIV. P. I.]

QUACK AND NO QUACK, BEING AN ACCOUNT OF DR. GREEN AND HIS MAN KEMP. POPULAR MEDICINE, HERBARY, THEORY OF SIGNATURES, WILLIAM DOVE, JOHN WESLEY, AND BAXTER.


Hold thy hand! health's dear maintainer;
Life perchance may burn the stronger:
Having substance to maintain her
She untouched may last the longer.
When the Artist goes about
To redress her flame, I doubt
Oftentimes he snuffs it out.
QUARLES.

[CHAPTER XXV. P. I.]

Hiatus valde lacrymabilis.


Time flies away fast,
The while we never remember
How soon our life here
Grows old with the year
That dies with the next December!
HERRICK.