Yet all in vain she heav'd the sigh, 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, [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. nature MORA L. Ye Brothers, that have Sisters dear, Armas for the Roadling Hospital the Committed In These arms are to be altered by the Desire of a Wolf in Heery Hosiery is to be substituted for the Lamb and the Supporters are t laken an (1) {31} 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. Tell 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! If our high Church thy spirit move Ah Doctor! in that serious hour, This sin 'gainst Heav'n and Woman-kind No Rhubarb, Senna, purging Drug [learned Leech,] For the propriety of this appellation, see note post. D 2 Let |