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 CLXXXIV.
[A Rustic once, unless tradition fib]
QUOCUNQUE MODE REM.
A Rustic once, unless tradition fib,
Applied this remedy to a broken rib:
A quart of buttermilk down his throat he threw;
Then tighter by a hole his belt he drew:—
Again he swallow'd, and again, the dose;
And, toties quoties, buckled up more close:
Expell'd withinside, and repell'd without,
The bone soon found it's proper medium out;
In that due medium either way secur'd,
Stood fix'd; united; heal'd;—and Hodge was cur'd!
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That this was kitchen physic none denies:
Of recipes if the simplest is the best,
That this was simple too, must be confest—
—A belt, and buttermilk?—Probatum est!
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