The apothecaries vindication in answer to an abusive book entitled The family physician and house apothecary. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B01423 of text R220073 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing A3564). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B01423 Wing A3564 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.4[7] 99884916 ocm99884916 182678 2240893873

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B01423) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182678) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A4:2[7]) The apothecaries vindication in answer to an abusive book entitled The family physician and house apothecary. 1 sheet ([1] p.). s.n., [London? : 1676] Imprint from Wing. Verse: "Now Machiavels reviv'd, he ..." In answer to Gideon Harvey's The family physician, and the house apothecary. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Harvey, Gideon, 1640?-1700?. -- Family physician, and the house apothecary -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. eebo The apothecaries vindication in answer to an abusive book entitled The family physician and house apothecary. anon 1676 1 526 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2010-12 Sampled and proofread 2010-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2011-06 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Apothecaries Vindication In Answer to an Abusive Book Entitled The Family Physician and House Apothecary . NOw Machiavel's reviv'd , he doth defame Bodly such who are of an unstain'd Fame : Bavius and Maevius , a Quack of one Litter , Have took a Glister and do foulely squitter . A Scavenger his dung doth fling abroad , Bespattering such as pass by in his Road. Just so a Scribling Quack with his Goose-quill Men in their good names strive to wound or kill . The Press is over-prest with fools in print Where they their envy and their malice mint . He fomes and fumes , reviling Learned Men , In Gaul and Vinegar who dips his Pen. If Housewife Physick would serve the turn , The Learned Doctors might their Books soon burn , A Pedlar for his Books may give some pins , Yet still complain that by them he naught wins . Phlebotomy is fit , as I can tell ; To bleed his tongue that 's set on fire of Hell . Midsummer Moon is past , Mad-men are pent , In close dark Rooms , great mischiefs to prevent . Oh Quack , if yet one shaving of thy Wit Be left , that Bedlam thou mayst scape , 't is fit To give thee counsel to take Pills , To purge thy Head , which with Chymaera's fills . Let Apothecaries alone , mind thy Quacking Trade , If I could but on thee thus prevail , Then I might hope that thou wouldst leave to rail . Abimelech fighting by a Woman fell , And Female Empyricks cause many a knell . Doctors of Physick will keep their renown , When Quacks and Mountebanks shall be trampl'd down . Why should this Momus envy Artists gains , Rewards are due to Learned and their pains ; Returns are slow , and many Druggs are lost , Good Gains are to be allow'd for Charge and Cost . Forbear , O Momus , Learned to abuse , And the Apothecaries Falsly to accuse . One foule Disease is seldom or ne'r Cur'd , If thou hast got it thou 'lt not be Indur'd . Wash first thy Heart , afterwards thy Tongue , And so thou wilt not do thy Neighbours wrong . What ? from a Doctor , a Quack to turn ; His Lying Books the Hang-man soon may burn . Momus and Ignoramus joyn together , Hang choice there is , if you take one of either Fome at the top , and at the bottom Dreggs ; Such are his Books , which stink like rotten Eggs. Leave off to Lye , least Artists take some Pains To give thee Hellebore and purge thy Brains . Thou Lyon-like walks abroad and roars , But there stands open for thee Bedlam doors : I wish thou come not there , but to thy Self Wiser to be , and not a peevish Elf. Thus I have paid thee off in thine own Coyn , None will thee Bail by Wager or Essoyn . FINIS .