Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Subjects:

Phrenology

People mentioned:

Johann C Spurzheim , Franz J Gall

    Admits that despite possessing a small faculty of 'destructiveness' he will commit suicide if his mistress is deaf to his 'vehement call'. Notes that his organ of 'veneration' is swelling so much that if his mistress is 'contending' with his passion then his 'organs will swell' until his hat is knocked off. Thinks that his mistress 'secretly sneerest' at his passion but never wants the 'truth unto me' to be proved. Resolves to send a cast of his forehead to his mistress before flying to the devil. Concludes that 'When 'tis passion that Spurs-him, 'tis bitter as Gall'.