By two machines, constructed upon the most complicated principles, though intended for performing very simple operations, we discover that our quack studies mechanics. On one of them lies a folio treatise descriptive of their uses; by which we are informed that the largest is to reduce a dislocated limb, the smallest is to draw a cork!—each of them invented by Monsieur De la Pilulæ, and inspected and approved by the Royal Academy of Paris.
PLATE IV.
The new-made Countess treads enchanted ground,
And madly whirls in pleasure's airy round;
From Circe's cup delicious poison quaffs,
And, drunk with pomp, at cold discretion laughs.
While the soft warbling of a senseless song,
Pour'd from a neutral nothing,[13] charms the throng;
To love's fond tale the fair her ear inclines,