The Grand Consulation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDEE AFGGH IIJKK BBKKK BBEEEE AABBB LLKMM MMKKK EEAAA ABBBBquot 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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