Apostasy's so fashionable, too,
To keep one creed's a task grown quite Herculean:
Is it not so, my Tory, Ultra-Julian?
VENICE, September 16, 1818.
THOMAS HOOD.
(1798-1845.)
[LXI.] COCKLE v. CACKLE.
This is not meant as a "cut" at that standard medicine named therein which has wrought such good in its day; but is a satire on quack advertising generally. The more worthless the nostrum, the more universal the advertising of it, such is the moral of Hood's satire.
Those who much read advertisements and bills,