Scripscrapologia or, Collins's Doggerel Dish Of All Sorts. Consisting of Songs Adapted to familiar Tunes, And which may be sung without the Chaunterpipe of an Italian Warbler, or the ravishing Accompaniments of Tweedle-Dum or Tweedle-Dee. Particularly those which have been most applauded in the author's once popular performance, call'd, The Brush. The Gallimaufry garnished with a variety of comic tales, quaint epigrams, whimsical epitaphs, &c. &c. [by John Collins] |
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THE LOST CASE:
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THE LOST CASE:
Taken from a recent Bath Anecdote.
Once a Wife, who of Prudence had got the Whip Hand,
Was driving Ding Dong to Death's Door;
When her Spouse told a Friend, “The whole Medical Band
“Were unable her Health to restore.”
Was driving Ding Dong to Death's Door;
When her Spouse told a Friend, “The whole Medical Band
“Were unable her Health to restore.”
“Why so?” says Amicus, “To me it appears,
“That, try'd Skill not a Skeptic should flout;
“And as Crook has her Case known for many long Years,
“Of his Skill you can harbour no Doubt.”
“That, try'd Skill not a Skeptic should flout;
“And as Crook has her Case known for many long Years,
“Of his Skill you can harbour no Doubt.”
“May be so,” says Old Conjux, ‘but yet by my Troth,’
(And he spoke it with Muscle quite steady,)
“To plague him again I am damnably loth,
“Having Four Times cur'd her already.”
(And he spoke it with Muscle quite steady,)
“To plague him again I am damnably loth,
“Having Four Times cur'd her already.”
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