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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    The Roman * Priapus can prove. How much he won the Ladies love. And tickled ev’ry gigg. In this I never mifs my hit, Unlefs I mean to fpoil a wit. Or make a fellow filly : \ * 4 On cow-legs then I fet him high. To knock his head again the Iky, Like Chom in Piccadilly. At this, the Devils all burl! out, In one tremendous, hollow fhout. And made Hell’s conclave ring. On earth—thus blackguards fhow their glee. And roar for Wilkes and Liberty, • * * - « Before—their -f-gruel K—- * Priapus was a god worfhipped with the moft enthufiaflic zeal by maids and barren wives—the figure was made of brafs—and flood before the worfhippers with a lamp in the centre of the body. r . t Gruel is an infipid liquor, recommended by Doctors to dilute and cleanfe_it is made of Scotch oat-meal and blended with Englifli water—’tis a drink that can do nor good or harm. G No
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