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Yet, lo! their butchers knock, with flesh repast 
With turbots, lo! the fishmongers appear ! 
“<< The pot-boys howi with porter for their bellies ; 
The bakers knock, with custards, tarts, and pies 5 
Confectioners, with rare ice-creams and jellies ; 
The freiterer, lo, with richest pine supplies! 
<* Ta secret, thus, they eat, and booze, and nod; 
In public call indulgence a damn’d evil ; 
Order their simple flocks to walk with God, 
And ride themselves an airing with the Devil.” 
‘THE MAN OF METHOD. 
From the Pursuits 6f Literature. A Satirical Poem. 
HERE liv’d a Scholar late {2) of London fame, 
A Doétor(d}, and Morosophos(c) his name: 
From ail the pains of study freed long since, 
Far from a Newton, and not quite a(d) Vince; 
In metaphysics bold would spread his sails, 
And with Monboddo still believ’d (¢) in tails ; 
At anatomic Jore would sometimes peep 
And call Earle(/) useful, Abernethy (g) deep; 
With 
(2) When I am very particular in the description of the character, I abstain from 
giving the least hint of a real name. “ Quis rapiet ad se quod erit commune omnium? 
or in Le Sage’s inimitabie language, “ qui se fera connoitre mala propos?” I only 
give this as A Character, and say no more. 
(6) The word and tide of “ Docror” is miserably abused. Erasmus long ago, in 
an Epistle from Louvain, in 1520 to the celebrated Cardinal Campeggio, observed, 
with some indiynation, “ Unde Docroris titulo gloriantur, nisi ur poceanT?” Erasms 
Epist. Ed. Lond. Foi. 662. I wish this were written in large characters over the 
door of the Theatre at Oxford, and the Senate-House at Cambridge. 
{¢) Morosophos, i. e. Stult? sapiens But more presently of Dr. Morosornos, 
the Mun of Method. 
(¢) A icarned and useful Professor of Natural Experimenta! Philosophy at Cam- 
bridge. See his’ Works. j 
(e) Ali the learned world know sow Lord Monboddo believed, and stili believes, 
that men had once tails depending from the gaéle end of their bodies, supposing then 
to go upon all fours. 
(f/) James Earle, Esq. Senior Surgeon at St, Bartholomew’s Hospital, and Editor of 
the celebrated Percivat Pott’s Works, I have been informed that the notes which 
Mr. Earle has added are valuable; nor would I pass in silence the treatises he 
has given to the world in his own name, the resuit of extensive practice and ol s*r- 
vation. ‘ - 
) A young Surgeon of an accurate and philosophical spirit of investigation, from 
whose genius and Jabours I am led to think, that the medical art nod natural science 
will hereafter receive great accessions. 
(4) The 
