Don't glare at me! I'll tell it not abroad

But merely in your ears alone applaud

The wily artifice of pill and dram.

"You know as well as I do, you don't mean,

One half the things you tell 'our patient.' No!

Why, I can clearly show,

That Mrs. Gobbles' ailments are but spleen,

('Tis quite the simplest cause that e'er was seen)

And yet what crack-jaw names you now bestow.

"Because, forsooth, the longer you can prey