Avenge our wrongs in mode as summary
As he adopted with Montgomery.

For if said Mac be crown'd with laurel,
Who kill'd a Colonel in a quarrel,
About two dogs, (g) between two puppies,
Most mighty Sirs, my trust and hope is,

That nobody will think it is hard
For us to shoot a conjuring wizard,
Since all allow, sans hesitation,
That we've receiv'd vast provocation.

And if our champion's full of fury,
When he kills Perkins, then the Jury,
(Provided they are made to fit him)
Will most assuredly acquit him. 65

65 Will most assuredly acquit him.

Why not, as well as acquit Capt. Mac, who evaded all harm, in consequence of his not permitting the sun to go down on his wrath.' Mr. Justice Grose, however, appears to me to have proved himself to have been a very gross justice,

And when the foe is sent to Hades,
Our champion, among the ladies,
Will be a favourite, for they want
A bully always as gallant. 66

in telling the jury that the law does not recognize certain nice distinctions which are adopted by men of honour. If, however, his assertion be true, it is proper that there should be an Act of Parliament passed immediately, giving uS GENTLEMEN the privilege of killing each other, which would save government the expence of hemp, hangmen, &c.

66 A bully always as gallant.

The ladies will not suppose that I mean any reflection on the beautiful part of the creation, for they very well know that none but the BRAVE deserve the fair.'

CANTO III.

MANIFESTO.

ARGUMENT.

The Poet now, with Discord's clarion,
Preludes the war we mean to carry on;
And sends abroad a PROCLAMATION
Against Perkinean conjuration;
Proves that we ought to hang the Tractors
On gibbet high, like malefactors,
And with them that pestiferous corps,
Who keep alive the paltry Poor;
By reasons sound, as e'er were taken,
From Aristotle, Locke, or Bacon.

But if you cannot find some one,
As bold as Attila the Hunn,

T' attack the conjuring tractoring noddy,
And fairly bore him through the body;

Collect a host of our profession,
With all their weapons in possession;
And vi et armis, then we'll push on,
And crush Perkinean Institution.

But first, in flaming MANIFESTO,

(To let John bull and all the rest know, Why we should on these fellows trample, And make the rogues a sad example)

Say to the public all you can say,
Of magic spells, and necromancy;
That Perkins and his crew are wizards,
Conceal'd in sanctimonious vizards.

Say to the public all you can say,
Of wonder-working power of fancy:
Tell what imagination's force is
In crows and infants, dogs and horses : 67

67 In crows and infants, dogs and horses.

These are among the patients whose cures are attested in Perkins's publication, in which he has introduced them to show that his Tractors do not cure by an influence on the imagination. The fallacy of any deductions, drawn from such cases, in favour of the Tractors, will be apparent from the following most learned and elaborate investigation of the subject.

There are no animals in existence, I shall incontestibly prove, that are more susceptible of impressions from imagination, than those abovementioned.