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LAUGH AND SING

John Fletcher (1579 - 1625)
    'Tis mirth that fills the veins with blood,
    More than wine, or sleep, or food;
    Let each man keep his heart at ease;
    No man dies of that disease!
    He that would his body keep
    From diseases, must not weep;
    But whoever laughs and sings,
    Never he his body brings
    Into fevers, gouts, or rheums,
    Or lingeringly his lungs consumes;
    Or meets with ague in his bone,
    Or catarrhs, or griping stone:
    But contented lives for aye;
    The more he laughs, the more he may!
From 'The Knight of the Burning Pestle

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