The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop ... To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author By the Rev. Thomas Clare |
I. |
II. |
The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop | ||
EPIGRAM LXXXV.
[When Doctors, twenty years ago]
PAR PARI.
When Doctors, twenty years ago,
Wore wigs of venerable flow,
A bodkin sword's diminutive stump
Stuck right across each physic rump,
Whose short dimensions seem'd to say,
“Our object is to save, not slay.”
An emblem apt enough, I trow.—
But wicked wits pretend to show,
For swords so small, an apter still—
—“We've other ways than one—to kill!”
The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop | ||