shows him off as the starved apothecary in _Romeo and Juliet_,
in one of his botanic peregrinations to Chelsea Garden; from
whence, it is said, he was expelled for "culling too many rare
plants"--

"I do remember an apothecary,
Culling of simples----."

Hill, who was often so brisk in his attack on the wits, had no
power of retort; so that he was always buffeting and always
buffeted.

[291] He was also satirised in a poem termed "The Pasquinade,"
published in 1752, in which the goddesses of Pertness and
Dulness join to praise him as their favourite reflex.

"Pertness saw her form distinctly shine
In none, immortal Hill! so full as thine."

Dulness speaks of him thus rapturously:--

"See where my son, who gratefully repays
Whate'er I lavish'd on his younger days;
Whom still my arm protects to brave the town
Secure from Fielding, Machiavel, or Brown;
Whom rage nor sword e'er mortally shall hurt,
Chief of a hundred chiefs o'er all the pert!
Rescued an orphan babe from common sense,
I gave his mother's milk to Confidence;
She with her own ambrosia bronz'd his face,
And changed his skin to monumental brass.
Whom rage nor sword e'er mortally shall hurt,
Chief of a hundred chiefs o'er all the pert!
Rescued an orphan babe from common sense,
I gave his mother's milk to Confidence;
She with her own ambrosia bronz'd his face,
And changed his skin to monumental brass."

[292] Hill addresses the Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of Canterbury,
and the Speaker, on Sir Hans Sloane's Collection of Natural
History, proposing himself as a candidate for nomination in
the principal office, by whatever name that shall be
called:--"I deliver myself with humility; but conscious also
that I possess the liberties of a British subject, I shall
speak with freedom." He says that the only means left for a
Briton is to address his sovereign and the public. "That
foreigners will resort to this collection is certain, for it
is the most considerable in the world; and that our own people
will often visit it is as sure, because it may be made the
means of much useful as well as curious kn