["14", "15", "1755. December hath 31 Days.", "Who e'er prefum'd, till FRANKLIN led the Way,\nTo climb the amazing Height of Heaven,\nAnd rob the Sky of it's tremendous Thunder;\nAnd leave the Clouds, with Winds and Tempefts fraught,\nBut Breath enough to shake the trembling Trees,\nAnd rock the Birds that perch upon their Boughs.", "New Moon 3 Day, 9 Morn.", "Full Moon 18 Day 4 Aftem.", "First Quart. 10 Day 8 Morn.", "Last Quart. 26 Day, 8 Morn.", "M.W.Courts, Aspects, Wea. &c. O.S. R O S.F.Sea. D y L.R D S.", 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16

EXERCISE.

AMES, 1755.

THE Law of Nature so ordains, Toil, and be strong:
The Husbandman who manures the Glebe, and toils
in Dust and Rain; his Habit is steel'd with Labour; his
Nerves grow firm and strong; thro' midnight Fogs he walks
unhurt, nor fears Rheumatick Pains or Coughs from Eaft-
tern Blasts. Oh! happy would it be for many Sons of Lux-
ury, if they no Bread might eat, but what they earn'd by
Labour, when Winter chills the Blood and binds the Veins,
your Health more Labour then demands. How sweet the
balmy Dew of Sleep descends on the labouring Man: He
waftes the blank of Night in deep Oblivion; but if his Me-
mory retains what roving Fancy coin'd, the little Cupids
court his Company by Night, and happy Dreams increafe
the Tranquility of his Mind, and he awakes as lively as the
Morning: But with the unactive Sluggard it is not so; his
flacid Nerves are unftrung, his Nature finks, his Meals op-
prefs, his Sleep is frantic with pale Spectres, coin'd in his
delirious Brains; and monſtrous Painting thocks his Soul
all Night.

'Twas Toil that taught the Romans how to conquer; they
from the Field went to the Senate-House; and from the
Plough they led their Legions on to War; by Toil thro' eve-
ry Clime they gain'd the Victory. Then you of firmest Clay,
New-England's hardiest Sons, let Agriculture exercife your
Limbs. You, with the Spirit of the Romans, conquer'd Lo-
zibourg: Manure this Land which your Fore-Fathers plan-
ted with herculean Labour, and at a vaft Expence. When
Dust and Sweat befimears the Skin,thro' whole small Pores
a conſtant Stream pervades, then plunge into the Flood, or
in the Cittern bathe. Your Nerves thus temper'd as with tre-
ble Steel, no chronick Languors can affault your Breaſt;
nor Fevers rapid Flames ſcorch up your Blood; befides
'twill keep you clean, and Naſtineſs is Poverty indeed: Youth
has no Grace with Filth, and Charms with Dirt are loath-
ſome. But you whole Health is fled, whole Strength is profit-
rate, whole feeble Limbs the Toil of Exercife can't bear, nor
in the tepid Flood dare plunge: You, Friction with the Bruth
may uſe; ſuch Irritation on the porous Skin may move thofe
Bars which Perſpiration feels, and make the Wheels of Life
(which lag) move eafher along.

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