Oh, sister, wife, or daughter!

Than merely handing him beef-tea,

Gruel, or toast-and-water.

Ye bachelors about to wed

In youth’s unthinking hey-day,

Who look upon a furnish’d head

As horrid for a lady,

Who’d call a female doctor ‘blue;’

You’d spare your sneers, I rather

Think, my young fellows, if you knew