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ON THE PHYSICO-MEDICAL ENARRATION Explanation/Exposition OF A MAN MOST INSTRUCTED IN EVERY KIND OF LITERATURE, MY ALWAYS MOST FRIENDLY COLLEAGUE, ROYAL PHYSICIAN AT THE TOWER, D. D. GWYNNE, WHO IS CANDID frank/pure/honest IN HIS NATIVE TONGUE.

Because Hagar bears a spurious infant for her master,
The proud slave girl mocked Sarah, her mistress.
Behold the mill; Antony brings forth an egg from the wind:
Every cure is from gold, and every pain is of salt.
He has roasted gold with salts, he has made it potable
With instrumental water, which he feigns poorly.
He has brought forth a secret: friends, hold back your laughter,
For whom Salt, Sun, Fire, and Mercury are valid.
He has entered upon the stage (let us leave the bald man to his plucking)
He has set sails for a fame of which he himself is ignorant.
Let the parachymical imposture perish with its own deceits,
Which thinks the Sun can be helped by a torch:
Playing with another's skin, bald yet hairy;
Let it wash away the shadows of the smoke it sells.
Let the Night of the mind, captured in stocks, fear the Light-bearer,
Which the elenchus refutation of the Candid author holds.
Finally, may the civic oak crown your temples,
(Candid One) because your writings suffocate the wolves.