Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 24, 1891 by Various
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page 27 of 45 (60%)
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Kingdom." Evidently "United" is something more than _anagrammatically_
identical with "Untied." * * * * * "GRAY'S ELEGY" AMENDED. ["I have often thought that GRAY's _Elegy_ was defective in having no verse commemorative of the sequestered and unsophisticated philanthropy of the village doctor."--_Sir James Crichton-Browne at the Yorkshire College, Leeds._] And one lies here of whom the scoffer said, He did his best the green churchyard to fill; None ever looks upon his lowly bed, Without the recollection of a pill. He lived sequestered, and he died unknown, A truly unsophisticated man; A medicine-glass adorns his humble stone, And thus the epitaph they graved him ran: "Here Doctor BOLUS lies, to dose no more; His charge was moderate, but quite enough: Death left a last prescription at the door, And then the doctor had his '_Quantum suff._'" * * * * * [Illustration: "AFTER YOU!" |
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