A Parody on "Mary's Ghost;" or, The Doctors and Body-snatchers.: A Pathetic Tale, With Numerous Additions.Hood, Thomas
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A Parody on "Mary's Ghost;" or, The Doctors and Body-snatchers.: A Pathetic Tale, With Numerous Additions.
Hood, Thomas
Body snatching -- Poetry; Ghosts -- Poetry
The _Pupils_ dear, them sweet young men,
I vow they wrote on vellum;
A letter to the Doctors _big_,
And got my cerebellum.
As for my hair--the auburn hair,
You used to love so well;
Alas! it’s gone to deck the head,
Of _lovely Mrs. B-ll_.
My very liver and my lungs,
E’en them were not forgot;
But given to them cruel men,
_Long J-hns-n_ and _Page Sc-tt_.
I thought I should have lost a rib,
And many other stores;
But Doctor _Ev-ns_ took instead,
A _rib_ from Brazen-doors.
To say where my soft kidneys are,
The _Newspapers_ will tell;
Therefore you need not ring at night,
At “Doctor _Engl-nd’s_ Bell.”
To boil me down--did Doctor _Pure_,
_Affirm_ ’twould be a sin;
And then Old _J-rv-s_ wink’d his eye,
And _swore_ he’d tan my skin.
I can’t tell where my head is gone,
But _M-lls_ and _N-ch-ls_ can;
Also my trunk which is to go,
By _M-n-ym-nt’s_ night-van.
I wish you’d go to Mr. M.
And save me such a ride;
“I don’t half like the _outside_ place,
They’ve took for my _inside_.”
“The cock it crows--I must be gone!
My William we must part!
But I’ll be yours in death--altho’
_Sweet N-rg-te_ has my heart.”
“Don’t go to weep upon my grave,
And think that there I be;
They hav’n’t left an atom there,
Of my _anatomie_.”
_BERRY, PRINTER, NORWICH_
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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