The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical : in prose and verse, with his remains in four volumes compleat; vol. IIBrown, Thomas
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The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical : in prose and verse, with his remains in four volumes compleat; vol. II
Brown, Thomas
English wit and humor -- Early works to 1800; Erotic literature -- Early works to 1800; Latin literature -- Translations into English
breasts, he has got to be the devil’s glazier; nay, what will more
surprize you, he has procur’d the reversion of master of _Pluto_’s rough
game, when it falls, for Dr. _Oates_; and obtain’d a promise of
candle-snuffer-general to all the gaming-houses in these quarters, for
honest _George Porter_ the evidence.
_The Remainder of my Catalogue of_ CURES.
_Timothy Addlepate_, of _Cheapside_, _Milliner_, was so wonderfully
afflicted with the _Zelotypia Italica_, that he constantly lock’d up his
simpering red-hair’d spouse, when business call’d him abroad, and would
hardly trust her with her aunt or grandmother. By rectifying his
constitution with my true _Covent-Garden_ ELIXIR, he is so intirely
cured of the _Icterus Martialis_, or his old _yellow distemper_ that now
of his own accord he carries her to the play-house, sends her to all the
balls, masquerades, and merry meetings in town; nay, trusts her alone at
_Epsom-Wells_ and _Richmond_, and will let her sit a whole afternoon
with a gay smooth-fac’d officer of the guards at the tavern, and is
never disturbed at it.
_Jethro Lumm_, at the sign of the _Blue-ball_ and _Spotted-horse_,
between a _Cheesemonger_’s and _Perfumer_’s shops in
_Ratcliff-high-way_, by taking a few doses of my _Pulvis Vermifugus_, or
my _Antiverminous Powder_, voided above 30000 worms of all sorts, as
your _Ascarides_, _Teretes_, _Hirudines_, and so forth, in the space of
12 hours, one of which, by modest computation, was supposed long enough
to reach from St. _Leonard’s Shoreditch_, to _Tottenham high cross_. I
confess my medicine is a little bitter; but what says the learned
_Arabian_ philosopher _Hamet Ben Hamet Ben Haddu Albumazar_, A diadem
will not cure the _Apoplexy_, nor a velvet slipper the _Gout_: And are
not all the Antients as well as Neotorics agreed, that _raro corpus sine
vermibus_. Therefore, my good friends, be advis’d in time.
_Ezekiel Driver_ of _Puddle-dock_, Carman, having disordered his _Pia
mater_ with too plentiful a morning’s draught of _three-threads_ and
_old Pharaoh_, had the misfortune to have his car run over him. The
whole street concluded him as good as dead, and the over-forward clerk
of the parish had already set him down in the weekly-bills. Two
applications of my _Unguentum Traumaticum_ set him immediately to
rights, and now he is coachman in ordinary to a Tallyman’s fat widow in
_Soho_. Witness his hand _E. D._
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