Or give a clyster.
Of occupations these were quantum suff.:
Yet, still, he thought the list not long enough;
And therefore Midwifery he chose to pin to’t.
This balance’d things:—for if he hurl’d
A few score mortals from the world,
He made amends by bringing others into’t.
His fame full six miles round the country ran;
In short, in reputation he was solus:
All the old women call’d him “a fine man!”