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A Naturalist, cruel as a Turk, / Two Lizards in his garden catches, / And coolly sets himself at work / To anatomize the little wretches.
The plumpest now he has dissected, / And torn the reptile limb from limb; / With microscope he then inspected / Intestines, paws, and tail, and skin; / He pulls apart, for scrutiny, / The loin and belly, neck and eye: / Then takes his pen -- again he looks -- / A little writes and recapitulates -- / The memoranda enters in his books; / To fresh dissection then himself betakes.