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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    CLIX. Just then it is that bully Mars appears, Walking with a most bold and valiant swagger. Who, you must recollect, with Pan's huge shears, Had gone below—he always was a bragger— Swearing he would cut off some poet's ears.— Now on he strutting came and chanc'd to stagger Against the warlike creature in his path, That charg'd upon him then in furious wrath. CLX. Mars threw the sheep.shears at its head, and then, Like a mad bull, did run and loudly bellow; Not half so loud he yell'd out curses when By the Greek's spear he got his wound, poor fellow ! (For Homer says the gods were thrash'd by men Sometimes, and banish'd and beat blue and yellow,) And on the ground he fell, and growing sicker, He roar'd and roll'd as if he were in liquor. CLXI. Meanwhile his foe march'd onward, firm and spunky, Its tail still serving for a free pass, Until it came to where its darling donkey Was gravely cropping briars and blades of grass, Upon whose back it leap'd like nimble monkey;— When I lastgaz'd it rode off on the ass With a queer saucy look of self-reliance, While its long bushy tail still wav'd defiance.