 his patient's pulse, instead of his
apothecary's - a brother of the faculty in the back ground upon his knees in
tears, - drawing the curtains of a mangled victim to beg his forgiveness; -
offering a fee, - instead of taking one.
    In that spacious HALL, a coalition of the gown, from all the barrs of it,
driving a damn'd, dirty, vexatious cause before them, with all their might and
main, the wrong way; -- kicking it out of the great doors, instead of, in, --
and with such fury in their looks, and such a degree of inveteracy in their
manner of kicking it, as if the laws had been originally made for the peace and
preservation of mankind: - perhaps a more enormous mistake committed by them
still, - a litigated point fairly hung up; -- for instance, Whether John o'Nokes
his nose, could stand in Tom o'Stiles his face, without a trespass, or not, -
rashly determined by them in five and twenty minutes, which, with the cautious
pro's and con's required in so intricate a proceeding, might have taken up as
many months, - and if carried on upon a military plan, as your honours know, an
ACTION should be, with all the stratagems practicable therein, - such as feints,
- forced marches, - surprizes, - ambuscades, - mask- and a thousand other
strokes of generalship which consist in catechising at all advantages on both
sides, -- might reasonably have lasted them as many years, finding food and
raiment all that term for a centumvirate of the profession.
    As for the clergy -- No -- If I say a word against them, I'll be shot. - I
have no desire, - and besides, if I had, -- I durst not for my soul touch upon
the subject, -- with such weak nerves and spirits, and in the condition I am in
at present, 'twould be as much as my life was worth, to deject and contrist
myself with so sad and melancholy an account, - and therefore, 'tis safer to
draw a curtain across, and hasten from it, as fast as I can, to the main and
principal point I have undertaken to clear up, -- and that is, How it comes to
pass, that your men of least wit are reported to be men of most judgment. -- But
mark, - I say, reported to be, -- for it is no more
