The Thompsonian quack, or the miraculous cure and marvellous metamorphosis : a satire on somebody / by Nathan Nobody ; with a critique by Billy Booby.

  • Yellott, George, 1819-
Date:
1848
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Credit: The Thompsonian quack, or the miraculous cure and marvellous metamorphosis : a satire on somebody / by Nathan Nobody ; with a critique by Billy Booby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CXIV. In fact wo are akin—Here I did stare— Nay do not think I am infatuated ! I am a modest man, but must declare We 're morally and mentally related ; Our souls have, in a social way—I 'd swear Unto the statement—sometimes transmigrated ; His genius and his spirit slyly pass Into my body, mine into the ass. cxv. This doctrine, if you take the pains, you'll find Establish'd fully by the sage Pythagoras, Who stated that sometimes the human mind And spirit went and settled in a stag or ass, Or other creature of the bestial kind.— I'm modest, as I've said, and do not mean to brag, or as I am a living man, I would avow I feel the donkey's spirit in me now. CXV1. Whene'er I sit, with inkhorn on the table, To pen a poem or compose an article, The donkey's spirit cometh from the stable Upon a social visit ; ere I dart a quill Imparting inspiration ; and I'd ne'er be able, I'll candidly admit, to write a particle To fill the columns of The Continent, If he his genius had not kindly lent.