“No, Sir,—and so we gave him two.”

“Two shakes! od’s curse!

’Twould make the Patient worse.”

“It did so, Sir!—and so a third we tried.”

“Well, and what then?”—“then, Sir, my master died.”

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Ere Will had done ’twas waxing wond’rous late;

And reeling Bucks the streets began to scour;

While guardian Watchmen, with a tottering gait,