The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop ... To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author By the Rev. Thomas Clare |
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EPIGRAM CL.
[“Perhaps,” said a doctor one day to his friend]
MUTATIS MUTANDIS.
“Perhaps,” said a doctor one day to his friend,
“You remember a tale, which you made me attend:
“That tale, sir, much more than you think of, has cost:
“It detain'd me so long, that a patient was lost.”
“Alas!” quoth the friend, “I'm quite sorry for that,
“That your patient should suffer by my idle chat.”
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“No!—he is the saver!—the sufferer am I!—
“Nature popt in between, while I slackened my speed;—
“And the man was got well, before I could get fee'd.”
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