Because the learn’d are in the dark
How opium, mercury, acts, and bark,
To such reply you’ll make no answers,
For much I question if you can, sirs;
But rather for retort uncivil,
The poker take and lay them level.[92]
From Haygarth, borrowing a rare hint,
Tell how these tractors, ’tis apparent,
The most insidious thing in nature,
Will e’en bewitch the operator![93]