All mix’d well together with care and design,
And drest with great nicety, and garnish’d out fine:
This medicine warm as the patient can bear,
And when taken each day will soon soften the fair.
Sometimes a few days efficacious will prove,
Sometimes a few weeks ere the flint will remove;
But seldom an instance can any produce,
When this golden prescription has fail’d of its use,
Yet though often successful, ’twill ne’er reach that heart,
Which, hardened by virtue, will baffle all art.