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He that would cozen a Scot, mun get oope betimes, and take Old Scratch for his counsellor--' 'In troth mester what d'ye ca'um (replied the lawyer), your wit has run you into a filthy puddle--I'm truly consarned for your waeful case--The best advice I can give you, in sic a delemma, is to send an express to Rippon for doctor Waugh, without delay, and, in the mean time, swallow all the oil and butter you can find in the hoose, to defend your poor stomach and intastines from the villication of the particles of the jallap, which is vara violent, even when taken in moderation.' The poor clothier's torments had already begun: he retired, roaring with pain, to his own chamber; the oil was swallowed, and the doctor sent for; but before he arrived, the miserable patient had made such discharges upwards and downwards, that nothing remained to give him further offence; and this double evacuation, was produced by imagination alone; for what he had drank was genuine wine of Bourdeaux, which the lawyer had brought from Scotland for his own private use.

A tongue that can cheat widows, cancel scores, Make Scots speak treason, cozen subtlest w***es, With royal favourites in flattery vie, And Oldmixon and Burnet both outlie.

She'll fawn upon thee-cozen thee-and gull thee, With the fond vows that have in other ears Shed their sweet poison.

All this might cozen a fond female's anger; But, Edward! Here I continued near eleven Months, living on the Spoils of the unfortunate, whom I used to cheat and cozen at Cards and Dice, &c. 'till being wearied of this long and tedious Confinement, I entered into a Conspiracy with two others, to take the Opportunity when the Turnkey brought in the unhappy Women of the Town at Night, to force our Passage out; but this base Design was frustrated by one of the Confederates turning Informer, whereupon I was confined for four Days in the strong Hold, and afterwards moved by a Duce to Newgate, where (it being the Summer Time) through the noisome and filthy Stench of the Place, I fell dangerously ill, whereupon my Friends compassionating [Page 99] my Misfortunes, and to prevent the scandalous Reflection of my Death in so detestable a Place, procured my Enlargement, and generously paid for my Board and Lodging for three Months, hoping that in that Time I should get into some honest Employment.

Or, to give a more familiar solution of the enigma, the Poet and the Peer agree to honour each other's acceptances on the bank of Fame, and sometimes cozen the town to some tune between them.

Do not think to bully posterity, or to cozen your contemporaries.


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