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tends to be most wise when he is most ignorant. No matter whether lie 

 understand any thing of the disease, there is one thing in which his visit 

 must inevitably terminate a prescription. The regular and the quack 

 have each their several schemes of imposition ; and they differ in nothing 

 so much as in the name." 



It is a master-stroke of policy, both for lawyer or physician, to attach 

 himself to some religious sect. Quaker-doctors, for a long time, had a 

 vogue ; and many a good fee was given on the faith of a drab suit and a 

 broad-brimmed hat. But, for a lawyer, I should recommend staunch 

 Church-of-Englandism, as a better thing. With a strong dash of No- 

 Popery, it will infallibly lead to a Mastership in Chancery, at the least : 

 but then he must bring to the establishment the zeal of a sectarian, and 

 the intolerance of an inquisitor. Above, every thing, if the professional 

 man have patience and face for the farce, it is useful to dive deeply into 

 Methodism. The swaddling line " is sure to succeed." Sanctity is your 

 only brevet for capacity. The blessing of the Lord follows the sharp 

 practitioner who atones, by the austerity of his Sabbath, for the sins of the 

 six working days. In professions, experiments are far less instructive 

 than experiences labour, less efficacious than grace and intellect, nothing 

 to be compared with inspiration. 



Finger conviene il santo in, apparenza 

 E col yoffo eyualment e coll' atcorto 

 Parlar sempre di cielo e di coscicnza. 



" Woe to the man, who'd rise in church or state, 

 Who earns incautiously the bigot's hate 5 

 Who 'gainst our Tartuffes dares indulge a sneer 

 Too proud to bend, too virtuous to fear ; 

 Or who, content to purchase his own ease, 

 Calmly secedes, and lets those rave who please! 

 Detraction backward scans his every deed, 

 And lies, repeated, in the end succeed : 

 Tainted by calumny, his means decay 

 His hollow friends take flight and fall away ; 

 And saints exclaim, while the mark'd man they shew, 

 * Lo ! Providence itself hath struck the blow !' 

 Not so the man who courts the serious crew, 

 Who shuns the theatre, and frequents the pew ; 

 Intriguing, fluent, gossipping, and sly, 

 Well skilled a ready text to misapply ; 

 In faith too steady to admit a doubt, 

 And yet too pliant to be e'er left out. 

 Thrice happy he, by Providence thus bless'd, 

 By saints admired, and saintesses caress' d ! 

 He need not toil nor spin his fortune's made 

 Subscribing bigots push his thriving trade : 

 Some lend him money some discount his notes j 

 At all elections he commands their votes. 

 ]S T ay, if loo free with his friend's wife or purse 

 A third time bankrupt, thief, or something worse 

 To hide the common shame, the clique unite, 

 And. every member hastes to club his mite ; 

 Cajoles and threatens, pays the lawyer's fee, 

 And never rests till he and they are free." 



MS. Poem. 



