"When no malignant fever fires the brain, / And health luxuriant revels in each vein, / Tho' sunk in sloth, from all diseases free, / In dropsies, you will run to <i>Reeve</i> or <i>Lee</i>."
The Second Epistle of the First Book of Horace imitated. First published in 1741-2. 
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Text from <u>Poems on Several Occasions</u>.