NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
Mean Temperature 38·34.
February 5.
Browne Willis, Esq. LL.D.
Browne Willis, Esq. LL.D.
A Doctor in Antiquity was he,
And Tyson lined his head, as now you see.
Kind, good “collector!” why “collect” that storm?
No rude attempt is made to mar his form;
No alteration ’s aim’d at here—for, though
The artist’s touch has help’d to make it show,
The meagre contour only is supplied—
Is it improved?—compare, and then decide.
Had Tyson, “from the life,” Browne Willis sketch’d,
And left him, like old Jacob Butler,[53] etch’d,
This essay had not been, to better trace
The only likeness of an honour’d face.
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