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
_Elnathan Ogle_, Anabaptist-teacher in _Morefields_ over-against the
_Grasshopper_ and _Greyhound_, for want of being carefully rubb’d down
by the pious females after his sudorifick exercise, had got the grease
in his heels, and was so violently troubled with rheumatical pains, that
he was no longer able to lay out himself for the benefit of his
congregation. My _Emplastrum Anodynum_ so effectually reliev’d him by
twice using of it, that he has since shifted his profession, teaches the
youth of _Finsbury-fields_ to play at back-sword and quarter-staff, and
has turn’d his conventicle in-for a fencing-school.
_Marmaduke Thummington_, at the _Red-cow_ and _3 Travellers_ in
_Barbican_, was possess’d with an obstreperous ill condition’d devil of
a wife, whose everlasting clack incessantly thundering in his ears, had
made him as deaf as a drum. His case was so lamentable, that a
demiculverin shot over his head affected him no more than it would a man
20 miles off; he was insensible to all the betting and swearing of the
loudest cock-match, that ever was fought by two contending counties;
nay, at one of Mr. _Bays_’s fighting plays, would sit you as
unconcern’d, as if he had been at a Quakers silent meeting. After all
your _Elmys_, and other pretenders had despair’d of him, I undertook his
cure, and with a few of my _Otacoustical_ drops have so intirely
recover’d him, that the society of Reformers have made him their chief
director, and his hearing is so strangely improved, that at an
eaves-dropping at a window, he can hear oaths that were never sworn, and
bawdy that was never spoke.
_Richard Bentlesworth_, superintendent of a small grammar-elaboratory,
in the out-skirts of the town, was so monstrously over-run with the
_Scorbuticum Pedanticum_, that he used to dumfound his milk-woman with
strange stories of _gerunds_ and _participles_; would decline you
_domus_ in a cellar in the _Strand_ before a parcel of chimney-sweepers,
and confute _Schioppius_ and _Alvarez_ to the old wall-ey’d matron, that
sold him grey pease. Tho’ this strange distemper, when once it has got
full possession of a man, is as hard to be cured as an hereditary-pox,
yet I have absolutely recovered him; so that now he troubles the publick
no more with any of his _Dutch-Latin_ dissertations; but is as quiet an
author as ever was neglected by all the town, or buried in
_Little-Britain_.
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