Which points the sacred way,
And let thy creatures here below
Instruct me how to pray.
FRAGMENT, WRITTEN AT MIDNIGHT.
Aldborough, 1779.
Oh, great Apollo! by whose equal aid
The verse is written and the med'cine made,
Shall thus a boaster, with his fourfold powers,
In triumph scorn this sacred art of ours?
Insulting quack! on thy sad business go,