Skip to main content

The rich hypocondriack

Index: INDEX/BCMSV/4137

Details

Type: Index

Record number: INDEX/BCMSV/4137 (Lt q 18 )

Title: The rich hypocondriack

Author: Anonymous

Language: Latin

Date(s): 165- ?

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/102060

Reference

Manuscript: Lt q 18

Pages: f.1v

Description

Notes: (How the fool)

First lines: How the foole grunts his pomp to boast

Which otherwise were wholy lost

Last lines: Discharge the quacks and nurses too

My bed will cure with lesse ado

Length: 6

Verse form: 1 stanza, aabbcc

Contents: Suggesting that a rich hypochondriac's expenditure on doctors and medical care proves his foolishness; translation of Martial, "Epigrams", II.16