SIR JOHN HILL

Was a Polish knight and an English physician, more celebrated by

Garrick’s epigrams than by his own dramatic compositions, consisting of

two farces, _The Maiden’s Whim_ and _The Rout_. He wrote books enough on

all subjects “to build his own papyral monument,” if the grocers and

trunk-makers had not committed such havoc among them, even before his

death. That event was produced by taking his own remedy for the gout,

and it is thus commemorated.

_On the Death of Doctor Hill._

“Poor Doctor Hill is dead!”--“Good lack!

Of what disorder?”--“An attack

Of gout.”--“Indeed! I thought that he

Had found a wondrous remedy.”--

“Why so he had, and when he tried

He found it true--_the Doctor died!_”

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