This Doctor Crow
Was not of Law, nor Music, nor Divinity;—
He was obstetrick;—but, the fact is,
He didn’t in Lucina’s turnpike practise;
He took bye-roads,—reducing Ladies’ shapes,
Who had secure’d themselves from leading apes,
But kept the reputation of virginity.
Crow had a roomy tenement of brick,
Enclose’d with walls, one mile from Hyde Park corner;
Fir trees, and yews, were planted round it, thick;—