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Even carry’d matters to such pitches,

In hoity-toity midnight revel,

The old hags almost raised the devil!

And now our tragi-comic actors

Torment a pair of wooden tractors;

All which, with many things they more did,

In Haygarth’s book you’ll find recorded.

Since doctor Haygarth, as we’ve stated,

These points pernicious has prostrated,

Our college ought to canonize him;

Instead of that, the rogues despise him.

And there’s a certain doctor Caldwell

May calculate on being maul’d well,

Unless, since he’s presumed to flout him,

He unsays all he’s said about him.

What right could he have to berate his

Opinions, which were given gratis,

Or state a plausible objection

Against his doctrine of infection?

O man of mineral putrefaction,[73]

In spite of imps of fell detraction,

We greet thee on our bended knees

Great Britain’s great Hippocrates.

But if Haygarthian rites infernal

Should fail our foes to overturn all,

Seek ways and means to lay them level,

Without one conjurer, witch, or devil.

If you can find some one among