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The English dance of death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson; (1903)

Combe, William, 1742-1823, Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 · London, Methuen and co. · leaf 229

An illustration from The English dance of death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson;, 1903, leaf 229 — f you know him well,And He the real Truth will tell.Whats the complaint or the DiseaseThat brings the largest heap of Fees :He 11 tell you Folly is the MineThat feeds the Sons of Medicine.Intemperance, in whatever wayIt doth its various forms display,Whether, in Bacchanalian Hours,It overcomes the… … o CD f/3 ^ ^ OJ O ^ +3 3 rrj u r-l M CJ <A ^ nr ,—1 p 0) p-t ^f1 CJ ■ .—1 o o ■—1 r-i o H H ENGLISH DANCE OF DEATH 175 We may forebode the coming ill That calls for Potion or for Pill. Is there a form in which excess Can minister to Happiness ? No, tis, alas, a source of pain, Of pale Disease,…

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