Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Dryden
'The first physicians by debauch were made;
Excess began, and sloth sustains the trade.
By chase our long-lived fathers earned their food;
Toil strung the nerves and purifyed the blood;
But we their sons, a pampered race of men,
Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten.
Better to hunt in fields for health unbought,
Than fee the Doctor for a nauseous draught,
The wise for cure on exercise depend;
God never made his work for man to mend.'
Dorothy has taken to walking a great deal. All around London wherever possible. I read the above in 'Days with Sir Roger de Coverley' by Addison and Steele from the Spectator.
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