DR. HELSHAM'S ANSWER, THE doctor's first rhyme would make any Jew sick : I know it has made a fine lady in blue sick, For which she is gone in a coach to Kilbrew sick, The yacht, the last storm, had all her whole crew sick; sick : A lady that long'd, is by eating of glue sick; Did you ever know one in a very good Q sick? The doctors have made her by rhyme and by rue sick. There's a gamester in town, for a throw that he threw sick, And yet the old trade of his dice he'll pursue sick; And therefore send twenty. Answer'd the same day when sent, Nov. 23. I desire you will carry both these to the Doctor, together with his own; and let him know we are not persons to be insulted. “Can you match with me, * You must get fourteen more, « But, if me you can conquer, This morning I'm growing, by smelling of yew, sick ; My brother's come over with gold from Peru sick; Last night I came home in a storm that then blew sick; This moment my dog at a cat I halloo sick ;· I hear, from good hands, that my poor cousin Hugh's sick; By quaffing a bottle, and pulling a screw sick: And now there's no more I can write (you'll excuse) sick; You see that I scorn to mention word music. I'll do my best, To send the rest; Without a jest, I'll stand the test. These lines that I send you, I hope you'll peruse sick; I'll make you with writing a little more news sick; I'm afraid that the line thirty-four you will view sick. You see, I've mounted thirty-four. The lines" thus marked" were written by Dr. Swift, at the botr tom of Dr. Helsham's twenty lines; and the following fourteen were afterward added on the same paper. N. SIR, A LETTER TO DR. HELSHAM. Pray discruciate what follows. THE dullest beast, and gentleman's liquor, When young is often due to the vicar. The dullest of beasts, and swine's delight, The dullest beast when high in stature, For breeding is a useful creature. The dullest beast, and a party distress'd, The dullest beast, and the saddle it wears, The dullest beast and kind voice of a cat, The dullest of beasts and of birds in the air, The dullest beast and fam'd college for Teagues, Is a persou very unfit for intrigues. The dullest beast and a cobbler's tool, The dullest beast and that which you kiss, Of serpent kind, and what at distance kills, The dullest beast, and eggs unsound, The dullest beast and what covers a house The dullest beast, and scandalous vermin, The dullest beast, and what's cover'd with crust, There's nobody but a fool that would trust. The dullest beast mending highways, The dullest beast and a hole in the ground, The dullest beast, and what doctors pretend, The dullest beast and fish for lent, The dullest beast, and a shameful jeer, Wednesday Night. I writ all these before I went to bed. Pray explain them for me, because I cannot do it. EPIGRAM, ON THE BUSTS* IN RICHMOND HERMITAGE. 1732. "Sic siti lætantur docti." WITH honour thus by Carolina plac'd, ANOTHER. LEWIS the living learned fed, Our frugal queen, to save her meat, Newton, Locke, Clarke, and Woolaston, H. |