The New Bath Guide (1766) [ Practices / Places / People ]
… this ample Creation. For This, in Compassion to Mortals below, The Gods, their peculiar Favour to shew, Sent HERMES to Bath in the Shape of a BEAU: That Grandson of ATLAS came down from above To bless all the Regions of Pleasure and Love; … to mend: She says that her Son will his Fortune advance, By learning so early to fiddle and dance; So she brings him to Bath, which I think is quite right, For they do nothing else here from Morning till Night: And this is a Lesson all … was sharp, When DAVID, the Bethlemite, play'd on the Harp: 'Twas Music that brought a Man's Wife from Old Nick; And at Bath has the Pow'r to recover the Sick: Thus a Lady was cur'd t'other Day.—But 'tis Time To seal up my Letter, and finish …
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