"Two of a trade can ne'er agree,
No proverb e'er was juster;
They've ta'en down Bishop Blaize, d'ye see,
And put up Bishop Bluster."
_Dr. Mansel, on Bishop Watson's head becoming
a signboard, in Cambridge, in lieu of the
ancient one of Bishop Blaize._--FACETIÆ
CANT., _p._ 7.
Sir Isaac Pennington and Sir Busick Harwood were cotemporary at
Cambridge. The first as Regius Professor of Physic and Senior Fellow
of St. John's College, the other was Professor of Anatomy and Fellow
of Downing College. Both were eminent in their way, but seldom
_agreed_, and held each other's abilities pretty _cheap_, some say in
sovereign contempt. Sir Busick was once called in by the friends of a
patient that had been under Sir Isaac's care, but had obtained small
relief, anxious to hear his opinion of the malady. Not approving of
the treatment pursued, he inquired "who was the physician in
attendance," and on being told, exclaimed--"He! If he were to descend
into a patient's stomach with a _candle and lantern_, he would not
have been able to name the complaint!"