An elegy on the lamented death of the electrical eel, or gymnotus electricus : with the lapidary inscription, as placed on a superb erection, at the expence of the Countess of H---------, and Chevalier-Madame d'Eon de Beaumont / By Lucretia Lovejoy [pseud.], sister to Mr. Adam Strong, author of the Electrical eel.

Date:
1777
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An elegy on the lamented death of the electrical eel, or gymnotus electricus : with the lapidary inscription, as placed on a superb erection, at the expence of the Countess of H---------, and Chevalier-Madame d'Eon de Beaumont / By Lucretia Lovejoy [pseud.], sister to Mr. Adam Strong, author of the Electrical eel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Kings,*' fools, and aldermen diffolve away. And one grave holds the duft of friends and foes. The beauty’s tongue which troll’d with fuch fuccefs, The floe-black eye that wanton’d with the leer. The bearded mouth which gorged to excefs—- I]} Ele&ric Eel— ; is dumb—and refleth here. * Fools arc certainly more numerous than wife men ; and perhaps there never was in any period of the world fo large a crop as at prefent, Voltaire hath faid, there are but three kings in Europe: the emprefs of RulTia and the king of PrufTia make two, and all the other potentates the third. As for aldermen—the bounty to boobies has been very great—I never heard but of one that had the leaf!: fpark of wit, which was John Wilkes, and the fools entered into confederacy againft him, till they drove him out of the City. I am forry Mr. Brafs hath had a fall from his horfe; but I never can be perfuaded that a blow upon the head could do him any material hurt 5 for he is as well armed in that part as ever Achilles was—in brafs armour. W omen