The old serpent's reply to The electrical eel / [by James Perry].

Date:
L,DCC,LXXVII. [i.e., 1777]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The old serpent's reply to The electrical eel / [by James Perry]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    % [ lb ] Who brought old Jove to Dance’s bed. And gave her a gold cover-lid ? Was it an Eel did this ? The godhead there did not avail. It was the Serpent in his tail. That conquer’d wanton mils. Who fill’d the noble Philip’s * dame, . With more than an immortal flame; And pregnant made the bride ? I was the lufcious matron’s pander, 9Twas I begot great Alexander, For I—the god belied. *Twas I that David Rizzio got. To tune the beauteous royal Scot, And fiddle round her bed: * The mother of Alexander is faid to have been begotten by Jove in the form of a fiery ferpent. Or
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