Scarborough.
_The Sizain_ (Vol. vi., p. 603.; Vol. vii., p. 174.).--I know not whether
any one of the sizains you have published may be the original, from which
all the others must be considered as imitations or parodies; but they bring
to my mind an English example, which I met with many years ago in some book
of miscellanies. I do not recollect whether the book in question attributed
it to any particular author; who, I presume, must have been some staunch
adherent for Protestant ascendancy in the early part of the last century:
"Our three great enemies remember,
The Pope, the Devil, and the Pretender.
All wicked, damnable, and evil,
The Pope, the Pretender, and the Devil.
I wish them all hung on one rope,
The Devil, the Pretender, and the Pope."
Since writing the foregoing, the following has been dictated to me from
recollection; which may be referred to about the period of George III.'s
last illness:
"You should send, if aught should ail ye,
For Willis, Heberden, or Baillie.
All exceeding skilful men,
Baillie, Willis, Heberden.
Uncertain which most sure to kill is,
Baillie, Heberden, or Willis."