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Yet all in vain she heav'd the sigh,
And stretch'd her lovely frame,
The life-blood would'nt leave her cheek,
No chill Deliquium came.

The Doctor oft with savage look

Renew'd the Damsel's fears,

Who motionless behind him sat

Like Niobe in tears.

At length he guess'd his Lady's case,
And led her down the stairs,
And left th' affrighted maid to add
Thanksgiving to her pray'rs.

[No chill Deliquium came.]

The Doctor says, this fainting or feint was not of the Deliquium kind, and that there is not any medical name for it.

[The Doctor oft with savage look]

Though the Doctor's countenance is naturally not very expressive, yet on this occasion it exhibited so much of the character which he chose to play, that it was impossible for the Artist to do justice to it in the Frontispiece to this ballad: he has therefore availed himself of the example of the painter, who hid the face of Agamemnon, at the sacrifice of Iphigenia, in his mantle, and has covered the Doctor's phyz with a prayer-book.

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Ye Brothers, that have Sisters dear,
And eke you that have none,
To th' Foundling Chapel morn or e'en
Pray trust them not alone.

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APOSTROPHE

TO THOSE WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

Ye Mitred Guardians of the Church,

Who in an evil hour,

To lay committee-men consign`

A consecrated power,

Visit the Temple, as we know,

Your Master did of old,

Who drove the brawlers thence, that dar'd

Profane the sacred fold;

[Visit the Temple,]

The writer of this Apostrophe does not mean to say that they should visit this Temple under the legal denomination of visitors: that cannot be; for the Damsel upon applying to the civilians was advised, that this Chapel not being a Chapel of Ease to a parish church was out of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and that offences against peace and good order committed therein are not cognizable either by the statute or by the canon law, and the Committee perhaps aware of this, and in order to protect the Doctor from committing any future brawl, or to reward him for having fought a good fight, have voted him the honours of a sitting in their pew till the end of the year, when he is to have an exclusive right to the pew which was the scene of action.--

'So should desert in arms be crown'd!"

For further information on this subject see the printed memorial prefixed.

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Tell them, that those who govern here And his good pasture keep,

Should, with a Shepherd's care, protect

From ravening Wolves---his Sheep.

APOSTROPHE to the DOCTOR.

Say Doctor Willain, learned Leech!
Thou simular of meekness!
Was this a time---to try thy strength
Against a woman's weakness?

If our high Church thy spirit move
To deeds of wrath---forsake her,
Turn thy conversion inside out,
And be again---a Quaker.

Ah Doctor! in that serious hour,
When Death shall call thee hence,

This sin 'gainst Heav'n and Woman-kind
Shall smell---with rank offence:

No Rhubarb, Senna, purging Drug
Shall drive away thy qualm,
No opiate lull thy troubled brain-
With kind narcotic balm:

[learned Leech,]

For the propriety of this appellation, see note post.

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