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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    \ t w ] ( _ Think ye that * Peterfham’s gay dame. Had ever cool’d her Cyprian flame, With Grig—or Conger Eel ? No—it requires--- or *** lies. Something of more important fize. To make the wanton feel. / ' What carried P***y crofs the main. What made my Lady figh in vain, s 4 But fuch 'f Gymnotus thing ? F~—-r had never won her Grace, * Had this poor breed of Chevy-chafe J Lov'd killing more than King, * This amazonian Meflalina had conceiv’d a paffion for a certain Captain of the ton, with whom file v/as at cards—and he having loft a guinea to her, the courteouflv return’d it to him again, which he gave back with a fmile, faying, my Lady—that is not my price. f A genus of fifhes without or back or belly fins, which is a very natural defcription of this very uncommon phoenomenon. I When McDonald the celebrated Highland chief was in town, being an old war¬ rior and a fingular gallant fellow, it was a fafhion to have him at the houfes of all the nobility—among the reft he paid his refpe&s to the Earl of Northumberland, but as he was leaving the room—his Grace afked him if he had feen Lord Percy—the chieftain anfwered no—Lord Percy being fent for—and coming into the room—the Highlander furvey’d him with a fixed aftonifhment, then turning to his Grace, he faid—“ In troths your Grace> ’twas another kind of a chi side that few the Douglafs \ Had
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