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quacks, who have the impudence to tell us, 

 they have 



" Men snatched from graves, as they were dropping in, 

 Their lungs cough'd up, their bones pierced through 



their skin : 

 Their liver all one schirrus, and the frame 

 Poison'd with evils which they dare not name ; 

 Men who spent all upon physician's fees, 

 Who never slept, nor had a moment's ease, 

 Are now as roaches sound, and all as brisk as bees." 



" How strange to add, in this nefarious trade, 

 That men of parts are dupes by dunces made !" 



Crabbe. 



By whom the cypress tree was first intro- 

 duced to England, and at what exact period, 

 we are not able to learn ; but it is probable, 

 that we are indebted for this celebrated tree 

 to some pious abbess, or holy fathers of Sion 

 Monastery, near Brentford, which is now be- 

 come Northumberland's ducal palace ; as Dr. 

 Turner tells us, in his Herbal of 1568, " it 

 groweth right plenteously in the gardine of 

 Sion." Gerard notices, in 1597, that " it 

 groweth likewise in diuers places of Eng- 

 lande, where it hath beene planted, as at Sion, 

 a place near London, sometime a house of 

 nunnes ; it groweth also at Greenwich, and at 

 other places ; and likewise at Hampsteed, in 

 the garden of Master Waide, one of the 



clarkes of hir maiesties privy-counsell." 



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