The bath pump room, or, A sovereign remedy for low spirits, a poem / by Peter Pindar [i.e. John Wolcot].

  • Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.
Date:
1818
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The bath pump room, or, A sovereign remedy for low spirits, a poem / by Peter Pindar [i.e. John Wolcot]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4. How many who have meanly swung, Some cruel fair one’s frown to weather— Their carcase o’er some bed-rail slung, And ended life and love together! * 5. How many who, when famine dodg’d, As once the devil plagu’d the swine, Have leap’d, G—d wot! and snugly lodg’d Untroubled, in the Serpentine ! 6. How many blustering knaves, forsooth, Who, goaded hard by mem’ry’s pains, Have, by a pistol’s voice uncouth, Expell’d both agony and brains !— 7. How many rattling sons of mirth— How many lads of wit and cunning, E’en now had rattled on the earth, Had these said waters still been running! 8. • Then husband’s h&d not quench’d their eyes, With briny floods of—hopeless sorrow, Nor wives been forc’d—to check their sighs— Pale resignation’s aid to borrow.