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Q. What particular mark may be found upon dissection, to know whether the party deceas'd dy'd by opium?

A. A fymptom of that kind we believe is fearcely difcernible upon diffection, because the operation of opium is chiefly upon the animal fpirits; but it is poffible, that a quantity of it crude taken into the ftomach, may inflame and diforder it in a very great measure an inftance whereof, Dr. Mead in his Effay on Opium, gives us in a fmall dog, into whofe ftomach he forc'd about two drams of it, which first doz'd him, then threw him into convulfions, and kill'd him. Being open'd, the infide of his ftomach was as clean as if fcrap'd, and wash'd from all flime of the glands, with fome redness here and there, as is an incipient inflammation.

Q. To you for aid, all o'er in deep defpair,
The wounded foul with trembling does appear,
O'erwhelm'd in thought, diffolv'd in anxious fear.
But foon those fears, thofe very fears are gone,
When at your feet she makes her piteous moan.
The daring Atheist trembles, when he reads
Your cogent arguments, and with reluctance pleads,
That bright Apollo, does his thoughts controul,
And checks th impetuous fallies of his foul.
To you the injur'd virgin does complain,
To you fhe fues, nor does she fue in vain.
Thus your extenfive bounty's not confin'd,
To all obliging, and to all you're kind.
Encourag'd thus, I trouble your recess,
From you, from you, it is, I feek redress.
Unfold the myf'ry of this facred text,
Which has of late, my troubled foul perplext;
To wit: the fea fhall then give up her dead,
On whom innumerable creatures fed,
There in ten thousand, thousand pieces torn,
To various parts by different creatures born,
Who foon perhaps to the greater kind become
A prey, and in their bellies find a tomb.

Alluding to the refurrection.

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Whilst they themselves within a little space,
Subfervient are for food to human race.
Otell me then how can the deep refign,
What he within herself does not contain?

A. When heaven's alarming trump fhall dreadful found,
The trembling rocks fhall into atoms bound.
All nature fhall a deep attention lend;

Earth, air, and fea their Mafter's voice commend.
Each element their captives fhall restore.
And death (grim monarch) fhall prevail no more.
Th' earth fhall obey with emulating strife,
And mouldring afhes quicken into life.
The willing fea difgorge the mangled prey,
It fhall enfold, on that portentous day.

Q. No more delays, dear youth, my felf and charms,
I yield an eafy victim to your arms;
And now invite you boldly to that war,
Where only foft endearments, weapons are.
My fancy does my expectation move,
With hopes of more, than bare platonick love;
Expect me then, bright darling of my foul,
Weft of that place, where fporting billows rowl,
Within the park, thofe pleasant royal groves,
Shall be the witness of our tender loves;
Juft at that time, when ftars of leffer light,
Vanish, afham'd at your great Father's fight;
The morning that fucceeds your next reply,
Thither with joy will Theodora fly.

4. Myfterious fex, form'd to amufe mankind,
Who can the depth of all your riddles find?
Fair THEODORA owns her felf a lover,
But ftill declines the object to discover.
One of Apollo's fons, the grants the grace,
But names not which, of all Apollo's race.
In facred bands of amity they're ty'd,
Nor wou'd infringe the knot, e'en for a bride.
In mutual courtefies dwells their delight,
Each cautious to invade another's right;
Till Theodora then her fwain reveals,
Whilft fhe declares obfcurely, the conceals.

Q. Whether

Q. Whether it be lawful to play at cards or not; and if it is, how must we play without a breach of any of the commandments?

4. To play at cards is undoubtedly an innocent diverfion, fo it be confin'd within its proper boundaries. And therefore cards fhould not claim too great a portion of your time, fhould not get the afcendant of your heart, fhould not make you greedy of filthy lucre, fhould not tempt you, either to deceit, or paffion.

Q. May fecond cousins marry?

A. Since fecond coufins are not within the prohibition specified in the 18th chapter of Leviticus, nor in the canon of the Church, which is a tranfcript of the faid chapter; and fince withal they are a fecond remove from the prohibited degrees, we fee no fhadow of a fcruple, why they may not be joined together in holy matrimony.

Q. Whence is the word parliament deriv'd?

A. The word is of French original, and is deriv'd from the word parlement, which fignifies difcourfing, conferring, or converfing with. And this is again deriv'd à parler la mente, to speak ones mind; because in conferences we declare our fentiments. Q. I am very often troubled (when I am, as one may fay, between fleep and awake, which may properly be called lumbering) with a grievous weight, by reafon of which I am not able to ftir neither hand nor foot, and have not the power of speaking; which when it first troubled me, I was very much furpriz'd; but being often used to it, it is not fa frightful.

A. This diforder of your's is that which is called Incubus, or the Night Mare, and it is caufed, as fome will have it, by thick, melancholick blood; but we rather impute it to malignant vapours afcending to the brain, and fo affecting the nerves, as to hinder the influx of the animal fpirits to the heart, and organs of refpiration; fo that the motion of the heart, and pneumonick veffels, being hardly performed, the blood is in a manner ftagnated, and occafions that

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fenfe of weight, and other symptoms above mentioned.

Q. What is it that engenders lice, and why fome folks do breed them, and others are entirely free from them?

A. As to the ordinary generation of lice, it is commonly imputed to filth and naftinefs, and a corrupt moift humour, which is animated by the heat of the body. But there is another fort of lousiness, which is purely a difeafe, fo that notwithstanding the patient fhould bath and fhift every hour in the day, yet will these vermine abound: and this is fuppofed to proceed from excrementitious and preternatural humours, communicated from the blood to the cutis, where breaking out into fmall puftules, the lice are engender'd, and thence extruded.

Q. We are convinc'd that God is good;
For he doth give us daily food:
We know his pleasure is to fave;
Because he made his Son a flave.
And we believe, that true delight
Lies in a world that's out of fight.
That if in faith we quit our breath,
We gain immortal life by death.
We know likewife this world's a cheat,
We find its joy fo foon retreat.
Nay, at the beft we do but share
Our good, with a vexatious care.
Then why fo flow, fo loth to leave
This earth, that we may heaven receive,
This paradox, Apollo, pray explain,
How in one foul thefe different paffions reign?
A. No friends on earth fo clofe are join'd,
As human body to the mind,

Which fympathize in ev'ry thing,
Together laugh, grieve, figh, or fing;
Of equal joys in all partake,

And fuffer for each other's fake.

And is it ftrange, when these must part.
That nature fhockt, fhould give a start?
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And when these antient, dearest friends
Muft part, for fuch vaft different ends.
Whilft one afcends yon azure skie,
The other'n earth, muft mouldring lye;
And yet a firm and vig'rous faith
A pow'r fo wondrous ftrengthning hath;
That ev'n in this fad parting, 'twould relieve,
Since always 'tis defective, when we grieve.

Q. Tell me, why huntfmen, when laid down to fleep,
Cannot their active minds in flumber keep;
But to the woods and caves will take their way,
And bunt by night, what they had caught by day.

A. When we to fpecial things our thoughts reftrain,
Thofe thoughts leave obvious traces in the brain.
No wonder then, the subtle spirits greet

Thofe parts, where they an open paffage meet.
And when they thro' the fame apertures dance,
The fame ideas in our fouls advance.

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Q. Behold! behold! Apollo, fee,

A fuppliant here with bended knee,
And hands extended to your Deity,
Offering up facrifices to your fhrine,
And raising trophies to you most divine,
In hopes you will not now my cause reject,
And on my former troubles once reflect:
But fatisfy my poor dejected mind,
If in your recipe's you can but find
A cure, for one with pox and gout afflicted,
And by most wife physicians now rejected.
Left to defpair obtaining of a cure,

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And forc'd with patience cruel pains t' endure,
Raging in every limb and every part,
From head to foot, from hand to heart.
Twice have I undergone a powd'ring course,
But yet ne'er better, for I ftill grow worse.
Now if you don't extend manum fanantem,
I'll hang my felf. Yours, Henry. Rogantem.
4. Since powd'ring courfes cannot move your ills,
But thefe your ailings fail the doctor's skills,

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