Works Serious and Comical in Prose and Verse; with His Remain

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1760 Excerpt: ...his nocturnal industry, has acquir'd as many pimples in his face, as there are jewels in Lombard-street, nay, whose phiz is so siery and rubicund, that it would put the last conflagration out of countenance; I have a water, that in a moment will extinguish all these Vulcanos, and make him look as fair as a sinner newly come out of the powdering-tub; or, if you please, as pale s a guinea-dropper, when he's carried before a worshipsul justice. Shew me a man so pitted by the small-pox, that his face looks like the map of Switztrland, with the hills and valleys in it, with my Lympha Cosmetica, or my Levelling Drops, I'll make it as even as a bowling-green. But what 1 most value myself upon, and indeed I defy any doctor within the bills of mortality (you see 1 circumscribe them, gentlemen, within their own domimons) to do the like. I have so improv'd the antient and laudable art of curo-menteia or ouro-seopy, that is to fay, of prognosticating all suture contingents by urine, that the like was never heard of in Europe, I know that several blockheads pretend to tell a man the present state of his body by seeing his urine, (and what fool by the broth cannot make a shift to guess what meat is in the pot?) but i have carried my disquisitions much farther; as for instance, let an attorney bring me his water, and I will tell him how his client's cause will go at Westminster-hall, and whether any of his adverfaries witnesses are like to perjure themselves. Let a young maiden shew me but a thimble-sull of her urine, and I will resolve her when she shall be married, how many children she shall have, and what their respective fortunes shall be. This, gentlemeni may suffice at present to let you see I can do somewhat more than my brethren. a brethren. Next Wednesday I shal...