A letter from the facetious doctor Andrew Tripe [pseud.] [i.e. W. Wagstaffe], at Bath, to the venerable Nestor Ironside. With an account of the reception Mr. Ironside's late present of a Guardian met with from the worshipful Mr. Mayor, and other substantial inhabitants of that ancient city. To which is added, a prescription from the doctor, by way of postscript, exactly suited to his distemper.

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1714
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Credit: A letter from the facetious doctor Andrew Tripe [pseud.] [i.e. W. Wagstaffe], at Bath, to the venerable Nestor Ironside. With an account of the reception Mr. Ironside's late present of a Guardian met with from the worshipful Mr. Mayor, and other substantial inhabitants of that ancient city. To which is added, a prescription from the doctor, by way of postscript, exactly suited to his distemper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which, according to the late Canto, may af¬ ford us Fit Matter for another Song. I am not, I am fenfible, the firft Modern who has fell fhort of his Title Page; diverfe and fundry Examples have I before my Eyes, pf Poets, Criticks, Commentators, Phi- lofophers, and Politicians, who have play’d the fame Game in all Places and in all Ages of the Wiorld. Several Precedents, rnoft Learn¬ ed Sage, could I deduce out of your own Works, and the Lucubrations of Mr. Bick¬ er(tajf, of Matters begun, but never ended, done and undone, to the Surprife of all your Readers ; of Acts of Parliament prov’d unalterable, by the fame Power that made them, in an Advert ifement, and dropt, be- caule it was High Treafon to after t it upon the Publication of the Crijis. Thus far, 0 Wife Man, with much La¬ bour and Diligence, have I brought this great Work to the wifhed for Conclufion, and by carefully comparing the Coffee-Houje Oration with the Original, do find, that it is Religioufly exaft. Come, I therefore to appeal to your own Learned Self, whe¬ ther the Great Bickerfiaff was not too partial, in aferibing fuch Pre-eminence to thole Speculations, which he writ, filed, and polifh’d at his own Leifure ; Where-