Squills he procured, but found the bitter strong His dress, his frown, his dignity were such, [much; Spite of their knowledge, trusted him when sick: Though he could neither reason, write, nor spell, They yet had hope his trash would make them well; And while they scorn'd his parts, they took his oxymel. Oh! when his nerves had once received a shock, (1) An empiric who flourished at the same time with this great man. Hence sums enormous by those cheats are made, To those who, weakly reasoning, strongly feel. What then our hopes?-perhaps there may by law Be method found, these pests to curb and awe; With any being to commence attack; Then let us trust to science there are those Who can their falsehoods and their frauds disclose, All their vile trash detect, and their low tricks expose: Perhaps their numbers may in time confound (1) ["So great are the difficulties of tracing out the hidden causes of the evils to which the frame of man is subject, that the most candid of the profession have ever allowed and lamented how unavoidably they are in the dark. So that the best medicines administered by the wisest heads shall often do the mischief they were intended to prevent. These are misfortunes to which we are subject in this state of darkness; but when men without skill, without education, without knowledge either of the distemper, or even of what they sell, make merchandise of the miserable, and, from a dishonest principle, trifle with the pains of the unfortunate,too often with their lives, and from the mere motive of a dishonest gain, every such instance of a person bereft of life by the hand of ignorance can be considered in no other light than a murder."- STERNE.] (1) THE BOROUGH. LETTER VIII. TRADES. Non possidentem multa vocaveris Muneribus sapienter uti, Duramque callet pauperiem pati. HOR. lib. iv. Ode 9. (1) Non propter vitam faciunt patrimonia quidam, Sed vitio cæci propter patrimonia vivunt.-JUVENAL, Sat. 12. (2) ["Not he, of wealth immense possess'd, Tasteless who piles his massy gold, Among the number of the blest Should have his glorious name enroll'd. He better claims the glorious name, who knows With wisdom to enjoy what Heaven bestows."- FRANCIS.] (2) ["Few gain to live, Corvinus, few or none, But, blind with avarice, live to gain alone." — ( - GIFFORD.] No extensive manufactories in the Borough: yet considerable Fortunes made there Ill Judgment of Parents in disposing of their Sons - The best educated not the most likely to succeed - Instance - Want of Success compensated by the lenient Power of some Avocations- The Naturalist - The Weaver an Entomologist, &c. Walter and William. A Prize-Flower- Story of |