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A42302	Gideon's fleece, or, The Sieur de Frisk an heroick poem, written on the cursory perusal of a late book, call'd The conclave of physicians / by a friend to the muses.	Guidott, Thomas, fl. 1698.	1684 (1684)	Wing G2194; ESTC R2964	17,544	40

taking some Outlandish Air Can make a man accomplisht home repair Unless the Root be in him no good Fruit Can be expected 'T is a better Brute A Stallion drest with Ribbon so well bred To leape a Common Brain and Vulgar Head A pair of Whiskers and the Sieur de Frisk Make Art no greater tho' the man more brisk Some Transmarine tho' Hospital Physicians Have no more Skill than Vagabond Musicians 'T is Judgment to the Mill that brings the Grist The Butcher sees more than th' Anatomist Things too familiar seldome will grow big A Grocers Prentice scarce will touch a Fig And tho' the Traveller the Cogg more mind The home-bred dusty-pole more Corn will grind Physick and all the Care of It is vanish't Out of that Breast wou'd have Physicians banish't Writes Bodin Sueton Seneca say thus Quintilian also and Herodotus If they a Barb'rous action but relate The same is laudable in his wisepate And what in Foreign parts inhumane was Must every where as practicable pass Because Some suit not with a peevish mind To All in general he 'l prove unkind Taking a Pet perhaps at Two or Three Extend his Rage to all the Faculty Rip up the Bowels that himself have born And Nero-like expose to view and scorn But this does too great Honour to him lend Med'cin no Viper is nor bare this Fiend An Asiatick Monster Meager Slender Got where wild Beasts come down to Drink and Gender 'T is best this way an Artist to become And this the best Anatomy to Some Who if they bring this Custom into fashion Should be the first are banisht from the Nation Were all like him to Physick did pretend Most wou'd be plea'sd it might have such an end Can any think this probable can be New Observations in Anatomy Shou'd be discovered more by one than all The num'rous Conclave Pope and Cardinal And yet this man Dissection to pursue With all the Malice to a Caitiff due Here 's a plain Surfet taken of a Knife Too much of Pride too little of a Wife Perverteth Judgment and Debauches Life Herostratus a Temple did inflame To see if that way he cou'd raise a name And 't is the Province of a sneaking Drabb To lend sometimes Authority a stabb 'T is a great step to an Egregious Knave At one time to attaque a whole Conclave And tho' the care be great of Guard and Welt The blow may be when unexpected felt A Suburb-Cat should mind no City-Mice Distemper'd Persons need the most advice A Name so great so famous cease to wear Or to abuse his Conclave Quack forbear And that of Gideon evermore decline Or under meaner Fortune cease to whine He that would live in Calm and rest in Shade Must not anothers Name or Fame invade For who an ill Aggressor once is found Is ever plagu'd still to make good bad Ground Who loves to contradict anothers sense May that way Doctor Singular Commence Live an uneasie Life and when he dies Have this Inscrib'd Doctor of Contraries But to go on with a brisk Gale and Tyde And after Safely at an Anchor ride Breath of good men not to usurp but gain Saluted Admiral upon the main Top and Top gallant Pendant Streamer wear Is that which Contradiction cannot bear Roughness one Creature claims as a true mark And Curs may have a property to bark Shapeless is one and snarling is the other Diff'rent in kind in rudeness each a Brother Honour is not in him that does receive But better plac'd in him that does it give He is the Fountain whence Respect does flow The Man is but a rivulet below Damn'd up or stopp'd by every wash or fall Of a great Tide or of a rotten Wall The best advance is by Humility And none can make so great a Leap as he That first retreats and then comes on more fierce Fetches it further than I can rehearse I ne're the better am if ten be bad Nor can one Vertue in their Vice be had I may a bitter envious mind express And thereby make my self so much the less But if I wou'd August and Great appear I 'd not deserve or no mans Censure fear Censure but few not count my self the best He that Connives is sooner at his rest 'T is an ill way to be a man of Note To take all men he meets with by the Throat Expose with all the foulest Play he had VVhat with a fair Construction can't be bad VVere all due Circumstances weigh'd and clear The Charge wou'd not so terrible appear But when one so much envious freedom takes Censures but what himself observes and makes 'T is ill to bring such Mormo's into sight And then with them himself and others fright Lay Death and Slaughter at anothers door That is as far from that as being poor First make a Body of Absurdities Then cloth it with malicious disguise 'T is no good Nature much less any Skill To save the Patient but the Doctor kill Endeavour by all means such to expose Are others Friends and only are his Foes Made so by Crossness and a Peevish Frame That will allow none else to have a Name Envy 's the worst Companion e're can be Embracing Jvy-like it kills the Tree 'T was Aeacus did wittily Torment And with such VVit was into Torment sent There made a Hellish Judg fit for the place Some still remain of Aeacus's Race But I can ill allow it to be Wit Folly enough may be observ'd in it Folly the Wit has so much overgrown That Wit from Folly hardly can be known Some wore their Eyes abroad the Story tells At home were Beetles Moles and Dotterels Candour becomes all men of greatest Art Not to be too Severe or madly Tart Who makes a Burning-Bull for others fame Perillus like must perish in the same A Tyrant can't but this just Sentence pass Since both are hot and both are made of Brass Hee l find two things whoever shall be there To be a Patient and a Sufferer In heat Tormenting that must suffer still Let Patience or Impatience work its will The Conclave ne're will need nor fear that Fiend That in Reproaches does his Talent spend But in Contempt and plain Defiance stands With Envious Quacks and boasting Scharlatans To the READERS of this POEM A Smiter wou'd let none pass by Without a Blow or Calumny And those upon their Faces found He jobbernowl'd against the Ground To give an ease was general The Cynick hung him on the Wall Of Aesculapius Temple where Before that God he did appear And all Spectators present saw A Rayler an Anathema Believe not me believe your Eyes A Smiter is made Sacrifice PHILIATRUS FINIS * p. 158. * Intred * Quevedo's p. 235. * Introduct * p. 185. * p. 173. * 173.174.175 * p. 196. * p. 199. * p. 196. * p. 186. * p. 197. * p. 194. * p. 120. * p. 95. * p. 100 * p. 186. * p. 82. * p 21● 211. * 16● * p. 172. * p. 193. * p. 8. * p. 19. * p. 75. * p. 15● * p. 110. * p. 30. * p. 8. * p. 19.5 * p. 60. * p. 43. * p. 13. * p. 188. * p. 135. * p. 8. * Medicina * p. 135. * p. 110 c. * p. 71. * p. 75. * p. 135. * p. 74. * p. 75. * p. 15. * Introd * p. 83. * p 50. * p. 60 61. * p. 198. * p. 61. * p. 62. * p. 5. * p. 90. * p 147. * p. 148. * p. 91. * p. 14. * p 114. * Introd * p 135. * p. 158. * p. 107. * Vid. Diog Laert. in vita Diog p. 388. Ed. Steph. 1593. ubi haec verba 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

Gideon's Fleece OR THE SIEUR DE FRISK AN HEROICK POEM Written on the cursory perusal of a late Book call'd The Conclave of PHYSICIANS By a Friend to the Muses Facit Indignatio versum LONDON Printed for Sam. Smith at the Princes Arms in S. Paul's Church-yard 1684. A PREFACE TO THE READER Courteous Reader COmeing accidentally to a Friends House in the City a Worthy Member of the famous College of Physicians in London among other things I was entertained with a Book Intituled The Conclave of Physicians Written by a Doctor of Paris and Physician in Ordinary to His Majesty as he there styles himself Hearing my Friend read and perusing it a little we were both surpriz'd to find a man that pretended to the highest Degree in Physick and the Vmbrage of his Majesty fall so foul on a Society of Men that ought to be ●●…d generally are men of the best Education Parts and Practice in a Nation founded on his Majesties Grace encouraged by his Favour conven'd and instituted by Royal Authority continued supported establish'd and endowed with all the Power and Priviledge the Supream Court of Judicature of a Nation then thought fit to afford Finding also under feigned Names easily intelligible and in a Parisian Scheme Calculated or rather clandestinely Design'd for a Meridian nearer home gross Reflections as generally apprehended on many Worthy Men now living and some dead Fecit indignatio versum the horror of the thing extorted the ensuing Poem which as it is I freely commit to thy perusal desiring thee to consider if in some words and expressions I have been a little keen and severe that in this Case and Thing especially so Circumstantiated Difficile est Satyram non scribere We did then also not a little admire how a great and stately Fabrick so far East cou'd so privately and soon be conveyed to the West or how the Presidency and Censorship of a Coll. cou'd so cunningly be vested in one Man who rudely maliciously and sawcily exercises more Magisterial Authority and Correptive Jurisdiction over the Prescripts and Receits of its Celebrated Members then ever That did over the greatest Empirick or unauthoriz'd Physitian But considering that in the Opinion of some sort of Men there is not a pin to chuse between a Conclave and a College it may not be difficult to apprehend how so absurd a thing shou'd happen especially if we take in the Heifer of Envy to solve the Riddle of Malice the working with which but a very little while like another Sphinx will unfold the Aenigma A Low Condition in the World I account a great unhappiness but no disgrace being what Infinite Wisdom in an unquestionably prudent Series of Providence thinks fit to determine provided it be accompany'd with an humble industrious and submissive mind satisfied for the present and patiently expecting better things when God shall see fit but an impatient restless and turbulent necessity that does cogere ad Turpia such a Poverty as good Agur prayed against that makes men steal invade Property and Common Right break the Bonds of all Societies and Laws and turns men into Banditi Pirates and High-way men such an Envious mean Condition and no other I wou'd be thought to expose As to what relates to Practice for which this Capricio seems so much concern'd those Famous Learned and Worthy Men of the Parisian Conclave whose Reputation 't is more then probable is maliciously pelted through the Crape and Tiffany of an envious disguise if it be not thought as I presume it will too mean an undertaking when it comes to their Knowledge are better able to make a Defence from which both their occasions and Dignity may well excuse in regard nothing material but is here sufficiently though succinctly answered in sense or in kind from whom no other answer can justly be expected then what a Learned Man gave an Antagonist he contemn'd Audio contra me Scarabeum quendam scripsisse cui respondere nec dignitatis est nec otij One thing more I wou'd have thee understand Reader That what is here said in Just Vindication of the Members of the Conclave that are concerned is no way Derogatory to the known Worth and great Eminence of the Cardinals Exempt for as the Reach went the Cloud brake and the Conclave like the Israelitish Ground was partly wet and partly dry but both so inconsiderably that neither the moistures improves nor the drought impairs And here I thought fit to mention That as I never had the Honour to be a Conclavist so I do protest I never yet saw either Pope Patriarch or Cardinal much less can be suspected to have had any encouragement from them otherwise than the Satisfaction of my own Fancy and the doing that good Office for others which they may well think as mentioned before too mean for themselves as knowing the best answer to Calumny is silence according to that of the Historian Convitia spreta exolescunt Wherefore if in this product of a few spare and drolling hours that now ensues any Service be done the Living any Justice to the Dead or the least Divertisement given Thee Reader is the uttermost aim and ambition of the Author and thy Friend Philo-Musus ADVERTISEMENT TO avoid the Bulk and Trouble of Quotations the places in the Conclave alluded to or answer'd are Paged in the Margin to which the Reader if he please may have Recourse ERRATA Page 12. line ult read Naiades l. 19. r. evene p 24. l. 3. r. the. l. 4. r. for To the AUTHOR of the CONCLAVE YOUR Bolt is gone and only in this wise That you so long about it did advise 'T was not soon shot the Malice was prepense And therefore justly gave the more offence But a mild Judge that all things calmly hears At this time spar'd your Neck and cropt your Ears If you scape greater scouring by a trick You 'r fitter for the Conclave of Old Nick It is his Trade the Brethren to accuse And as the Vision says Torments a Muse Yet while time lasts the Muse protesteth That She will Torment both Satan and his Brat Melpomene THE Introduction COme fierce Orbilius and inspire my Rage To scourge a Medicaster of this Age A nasty Bird that his own Nest defiles The Wise pay him with Scorns the Fools with Smiles An Alien from those Tents whose Rules are fit To teach him better Manners and more Wit A gnawing Cubb that tears Dams Bowels out Inform raw shapeless swoln as with the Gout Hence tho' his Satyr style in Gall does wallow His Railings are unfledg'd his Curses callow But can that Name fam'd for Bloods Circulation Turn Holocaust to Spleen and Emulation Bold Heterodox of prostituted Fame Cease to be Physicks-Zoil or change thy Name Degenerate Mome born to confute that Theme None of Great Harvey's Blood circles in him Whilst with Self-fancy'd Names thou Courts our Eyes Thine own is a meer Vizard and Disguise But see what Venom in his