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pay the Do«ftor, fo ainongil the reft they ask'd my 

 Charity. I told them that 1 would lodge ten Gui- 

 neas, to be paid Mr. Grsen when the Cure was per- 

 it&.cd, bat was unwilling to give any Money other- 

 wife ; however, I give half a Crown, and a little- 

 wholefome Advice into the Bargain j which was, not 

 to give Mr. Green any Money till fuch Time as he 

 had perfeded the Cure, feeing he had promifed it 

 on fuch Conditions. In fine, this Mountebank poked 

 with his Needle, for fome confiderable Time toge- 

 ther, in the poor Min'b Eye, ( for he did but try 

 one of them, ) )'et without Succefs. However, thus 

 much I m.uft fay in behalf of Mr, Green, which is 

 m.ore than I can fay for any elfe of the Itinerant 

 Tribe, that he had not thruH his Inilrument or 

 Needle unskilfully into the I\'Ian's Eye ; for he had 

 not m the leail Hurt or Wounded any of the Blood- 

 VefTels of the Irisy nor had he turned the Point of 

 the Needle inward, fo as to do any damage to the 

 Cryftal'ine or Vitreous Humour ; but on the con- 

 trary, he had ( like a skilful Operator fo far ) kept 

 the fame wholly in the Aqueous Humour, with a 

 fteady Hand,, and his only Fault or Imperfeftion 

 was, that he was not able to judge rightly of the 

 Diforder : For had it been a Catara«Sl tint this Man 

 had labour'd under, 1 am perfwaded this Gentle- 

 man would have removed it with Safety ; fo that iu 

 the Main, he neither did Good nor Harm to this 

 Blind Man, which is much more commendable, than 

 what is done by many oflentatious Pretenders, (who 

 would have us believe they can play Cups and Balis 

 in a Man's Eye,) to wit, thruft the Needle {o un- 

 skilfully into this noble Part, that they make it im- 

 practicable for any after them to do Service; al- 

 though the Diilcmper (before they meddled with it,) 

 was fuch, as might have been removed by a good 

 Hand, even in the fourth Part of a Minute. But 

 leaft I fhoald intrude too much upon the Reader's 

 Patience, I draw near to a Concluiion of this true 

 Hiilory, 



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