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 CLVIII.
[To cure the gout, one quack, forsooth]
MUTATIS MUTANDIS.
To cure the gout, one quack, forsooth,
Advises us to draw a tooth.
By similar ratiocination,
Methinks, a counter-operation
So rare a system would adorn—
—To cure the tooth-ach, cut a corn!
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