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LVIII.

"O who can speak the vigorous Joys of Health!

"Unclogg'd the Body, unobscur'd the Mind:
"The Morning rises gay; with pleasing Stealth,
"The temperate Evening falls serene and kind.
"In Health the wiser Brutes true Gladness find.
"See! how the Younglings frisk along the Meads,
"As May comes on, and wakes the balmy Wind;
"Rampant with Life, their Joy all Joy exceeds:
"Yet what save high-strung Health this dancing Pleasaunce breeds?

LIX.

"But here, instead, is foster'd every Ill,

"Which or distemper'd Minds or Bodies know.
"Come then, my kindred Spirits! do not spill
"Your Talents here. This Place is but a Shew,
"Whose Charms delude you to the Den of Woe:
"Come, follow me, I will direct you right,
"Where Pleasure's Roses, void of Serpents, grow,
"Sincere as sweet; come, follow this good Knight,
"And you will bless the Day that brought him to your Sight.

LX.