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BG.737.002
24-31 Jan 1737:22,31 (890)
London. . . Oct. 16. Mrs. Mapp the bonesetter with Dr.
Taylor, the oculist, being at the playhouse in Lincoln's Inn
Fields, to see a comedy call'd the Husband's Relief, with
the female bonesetter and worm doctor; it occasioned a full
house, and the following
EPIGRAM:
While Mapp to actors shew'd a kind regard,
On one side Taylor sat, on th' other Ward:
When their mock persons of the drams came,
Both Ward and Taylor thought it hurt their fame;
Winder'd how Mapp cou'd in good humour be------
Zoons, crieds the manly dame, it hurts not me;
Quacks without art may either blind or kill;
But || Demonstration shews that mine is skill.
And the following was sung upon the stage.
You surgeons of London, who puzzle your pates,
To ride in your coaches, and purchase estates,
Give over, for shame, for your pride has a fall,
And the Doctress of Epson has out-done your all.
Derry Down, &c.
What signifies learning, or going to school,
When a woman can do, without reason or rule,
What puts you to nonplus, and baffles your art;
For petticoat practices has not got the start.
Derry Down, &c.
In physick, as well as in fashions, we find,
The newest has always it run with mankind:
Forgot is the bustle 'bout Taylor and Ward;
Now Mapp's all the cry, and her fame's on record.
Derry Down, &c.
Dame nature has giv'n her a doctor's degree,
Shee getts all the patients, and pockets the fee;
So if you don't instantly prove her a cheat,
She'l loll in her chariot whilst you walk the streets.
Derry Down, &c.
This alludes to some surprizing cures she perform'd before
Sir Hans Sloan at the Grecian Coffee-house. . . [7 more
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