Nugae canorae medicae : lays / by the Poet laureate of the New Town Dispensary.

Date:
1873
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Credit: Nugae canorae medicae : lays / by the Poet laureate of the New Town Dispensary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    And not, like ^sop's dog, lefji»go my bit, Because I see the shadow of another.-^ Celsus had now drunk out his second noggin— I tried to get him to concoct an eke ; ^ He said he positively must be jogging, But promised to come back within a week. Whether or no he 11 keep his word, we '11 see; He's a good fellow, so I hope he '11 come : Meanwhile he's gone to found an N. T. D., On Edinburgh principles, at Rome. Let's drink to his success; and when next year We come to Douglas's, if he be near it, We '11 write and ask him to his dinner here : So, please to help yourself, and pass the claret. ^ Et quern tenebat ore, dimisit cibum Nec, quem petebat, adeo potuit adtingere. Phaedri Fab. i. iv. - EIK, Eke, s., an addition.—Jamiesoii's Dictionary.