Second Argument
Sudden deaths and sudden recoveries, against all medicine. Fate again.
[p. 7] How oft do suddain Deaths the Healthy seize,Without the formal warning of Disease?And yet how often from the Piles retire,E'en ¹⁴fly themselves, and wander thro' the Fire?Thus some have from their Graves return'd, and knownTwo Lives, whilst others, scarce enjoy but One.A small Disease destroys, whilst greater spare,Good Methods fail, and Men are lost by Care.Some temperate Diet, with Diseases fills,And Poyson's Innocent, when Physick Kills.
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¹⁴ Mortes seq; ipse rursus fugiunt, errantq; per ignes. (Creech’s note, 1697)
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The text is Thomas Creech's 1697 verse translation, checked word by word between three scans of the same type (the 1697 printing, the 1700 printing and a third copy). The long s is printed as s; every other spelling is Creech's. Pages are cited as the 1697 printing numbers them. The portrait is William Marshall’s engraving of Lilly from the front of the 1659 printing (Wellcome Library, public domain).