Epigram To Mr. Bury, An Eminent Surgeon In Coventry, On His Having Performed A Successful Operation, In A Case Of Deeply-Seated Inflammation In The Neck, When The Patient Was In Extreme Danger Of Immediate Suffocation
Bury, for practice bold and skill Deserves to be of note; He cures by means that well might kill, He cuts his patient's throat! * * * * * When Satan tempts a priest to rise, 'It is the call of heaven!' he cries, And mount's ambition's ladder: To heaven's own call that bids him be, Like Christ, full of humility, He's deafer than an adder.
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