IO4 MEMOIRS OF 



of cultivation and ornament* Look at 

 Mr. Sneyd, ye young men of fortune, and 

 reflect upon the robuft and happy confe- 

 quence of youthful fobriety, of religion, 

 morality, and a cultivated mind ! 



" The age ofjuc/i is as a lufty winter, 

 " Frofty, but kindly, 



In the fpring of the year 1778 the chil- 

 dren of Colonel and Mrs. Pole of Radburn, 

 in Derbyfhire, had been injured by a dan- 

 gerous quantity of the cicuta, injudicioufly 

 adminiftered to them in the hooping- 

 cough, by a phyfician of the neighbour- 

 hood. Mrs. Pole brought them to the 

 lioufe of Dr. Darwin, in Lichfield, re- 

 maining with them there a few weeks, till, 

 by his art, the poifon was expelled from 

 their conftitutions, and their health re* 

 ftored. 



Mrs. Pole was then in the full bloom of 

 her youth and beauty. Agreeable fea- 

 tures i 



