Alarm now gave way to good humour and fun,—

“Much harm to my friend,” said the Patient, “is done;

Your Ape pill and potion has put to the rout,

And cured me, I thank him, at once of the Gout.”

He then to the Monkey made reverence profound,

Who salam’d politely the company round.

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The Doctor a lesson thus learn’d, that, despite