De justo, et tenaci propositi viro. Ad perillustrem Baronem de C-den / Adjecta versione Anglica.

  • William Browne
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Credit: De justo, et tenaci propositi viro. Ad perillustrem Baronem de C-den / Adjecta versione Anglica. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    '“EPIGRAMMA, Bathoniae fcriptum, DE SE IPSO. Dominus Gvlielmvs Browne, Medicinae Bodtor, nunc Lufor. Quinquaginta annos, nunc, pafllis in Arte Laboris, Vult, ut fit Luftis, nullus in Arte Labor. Sic tamen ut ludat, ne Aegroti dicere poffint: 6 Mors erit id ?iobis, quod tibi Lufus erit F EPIG R A Mr written at Bath, ON HIMSEEF. Sir WILLI AMBROWNE, DoSlory now Play er in Phyjic. For half a Century, his Eafe IFas facrifis* dy to gather Fees. ”He, now, takes quite a different Aim} To play with Phyficy as a Game. . But fo playy that no Sick fay thus: ‘ What’s Play to you, is Death to us 1’ EPIGRAMMA, DE REVISORIBVS. Laus Cenfura* Reviforum eft, Cenfuraque Laus eft: Hos legito Inverte, ut Saga locuta Preces. A IVordy and a Blow, and a Salvey TO MONTHLT REFIEWERS. Such are the fad Reviewers of our days ; Their Praife is Cenfurey and their Cenfure Praife. The true Senfe of each Criticifm of theirs Is backwards read: as hVitches fay their Pray rs. Mota bene. Thefe Pfeudo-Critics were whipty pilloriedy and branded, both by SHANDYy and by CHURCHILL: yet' have the Northern hardinefsy to expofe their fcarified Backs, their cropt E ars, and the Capital Letter B, burnt on their Eoreheads. Idti Pifcatores Sapiunt: fed non Revifores, Fifhermen fruck become the wifer : But firipes mend no Monthly Revifor. ■— But let this Jlarving Crew my Pity meet / Poor, hungry Souls ! They onely print to eat ! And yet, alas ! go to their fev ral bedsy With bellies jujl as empty, as their heads! Vivite, Valete, feroque faltem, cum Phrygibus, Sapite. Live, and let Phyjic Health advife, And late at leafty with Troy, be Wife. Datur, Saturnalibus, Datedy Chrijlmas Holidays. MDCCLXX\
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