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THE

ART

OF PRESERVING

HEALTH.

BOOK III.

EXERCISE.

THro' various toils th' adventurous muse has past;
But half the toil, and more than half, remains.
Rude is her theme, and hardly fit for song;
Plain, and of little ornament; and I
5But little practis'd in th' Aonian arts.
Yet not in vain such labours have we tried,
If ought these lays the fickle health confirm.

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