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19. To the learned Doctor Brown.

Rare Oculist! whose Genius did devise,
To cut the Cataracts, from Vulgar Eyes.
The Sun-shine of your Learning, brought the day:
And chas'd the Fogs of Ignorance, away.
Your Universal Judgment, search'd about:
And put Gray-bearded Errors, to the rout.
Yet Modesty made you mistake. Most True,
A Phœnix exists. The world, Brown, doth owe.