Chap 6
[When old corruption first begun]
[1]
When old corruption first begun
Adornd in yellow vest
He committed on flesh a whoredom
O what a wicked beast
2
From them a callow babe did spring
And old corruption smild
To think his race should never end
For now he had a child
3
He calld him Surgery & fed
The babe with his own milk
For flesh & he could neer agree
She would not let him suck
4
And this he always kept in mind
And formd a crooked knife
And ran about with bloody hands
To seek his mothers life
5
And as he ran to seek his mother
He met with a dead woman
He fell in love & married her
A deed which is not common
6
She soon grew pregnant & brought forth
Scurvy & spotted fever
The father grind & skipt about
And said I'm made for ever
7
For now I have procurd these imps
Ill try experiments
With that he tied poor scurvy down
& stopt up all its vents
8
And when the child began to swell
He shouted out aloud
Ive found the dropsy out & soon
Shall do the world more good
9
He took up fever by the neck
And cut out all its spots
And thro the holes which he had made
He first discoverd guts
