The Grand Consulation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDEE AFGGH IIJKK BBKKK BBEEEE AABBB LLKMM MMKKK EEAAA ABBBB| quot Ambubaiarum Collegia Pharmacopei quot | A |
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| Horace | B |
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| If the health and the strength and the pure vital breath | C |
| Of old England at last must be doctor'd to death | C |
| Oh why must we die of one doctor alone | D |
| And why must that doctor be just such a one | E |
| As Doctor Henry Addington | E |
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| Oh where is the great Doctor Dominicetti | A |
| With his stews and his flues and his vapours to sweat ye | F |
| O where is that Prince of all Mountebank fame | G |
| With his baths of hot earth and his beds of hot name | G |
| Oh where is Doctor Graham | H |
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| Where are Sonmambule Mesmer's convulsions magnetic | I |
| Where is Myersbach renown'd for his skills diuretic | I |
| Where is Perkins with tractors of magical skill | J |
| Where's the anodyne necklace of Basil Burchell | K |
| Oh where is the great Van Butchell | K |
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| Where's Sangrado Rush so notorious for bleedings | B |
| Where's Rumford so famed for his writings and readings | B |
| Where's that Count of the Kettle that friend to the belly | K |
| So renown'd for transforming old bones into jelly | K |
| Where too is the great Doctor Kelly | K |
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| While Sam Solomon's lotion the public absterges | B |
| He gives them his gold as well as his purges | B |
| But our frugal doctor this practice to shun | E |
| Gives his pills to the public the Pells to his Son | E |
| Oh fie fie Doctor Addington | E |
| Oh where is Doctor Solomon | E |
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| Where are all the great Doctors No longer we want | A |
| This farrago of cowardice cunning and cant | A |
| These braggarts that one moment know not what fear is | B |
| And the next moment trembling no longer know where is | B |
| Lord Hawkesbury's march to Paris | B |
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| Then for Hobart and Sullivan Hawkey and Hervey | L |
| For Wallace and Castlereagh Bleeke and Glenbervie | L |
| For Sergeant Vansittart Monkhouse and Lee | K |
| Gives us Velno and Anderson Locke Spilsbury | M |
| Doctor Ball Doctors Brodum and Bree | M |
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| And instead of the jack pudding bluster of Sherry | M |
| With his quot dagger of lath quot and his speeches so merry | M |
| Let us bring to the field every foe to appal | K |
| Aldini's galvanic deceptions and all | K |
| The slight of hand tricks of Conjuror Val | K |
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| So shall Golding and Bond the Doctor's tall yeomen | E |
| Dame Hiley Dame Bragge and the other old Women | E |
| For new mountebanks changed their old tricks bid farewell to | A |
| And to the famed D'Ivernois his arithmetic sell to | A |
| That wonderful wonder the great Katterfelto | A |
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| So shall England escaped from her quot safe politicians quot | A |
| Such an army array of her quacks and physicians | B |
| Such lotions and potions pills lancets and leeches | B |
| That Massena shall tremble our coasts when he reaches | B |
| And the Consul himself his breeches | B |
George Canning
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