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Credit: Epigrams and poems / by James Gregory. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.
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![I ] - 6 ' l • ** .. V • > > THERE IS WISDOM IN SILENCE. ALTO ADDRESSED TO A FELLOW PROFESSOR. But ye are Forgers of Lies, ye are all Physicians of no value. Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace,and it should be your wisdom. Job xiii. 4-5. [The following piece of contemptible Obscenity has been handed round to the most respectable families, and to Ladies pf Rank and delicacy, as an exquisite morceau.!] i - ' The talking Fool we all despise; The silent Fool would pass for wise; But such a Fool we seldom meet. Or hail him Knave when so discreet: And though from talking he refrain. Yet all his silence is in vain ; To hear his words there is no need. The Fool still glares in every deed. Thus Pethox fain, would hide his ills, And secret take his needful pills : Vain care: his broken Beak reveals More than his silent Tongue conceals. /](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21438341_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
