If Doctor Glibb, with saving hand, be nigh."

Fame (now his friend), fear, novelty, and whim,

And fashion, sent the varying sex to him:

From this, contention in the village rose,

And these the Dame espoused, the Doctor those:

The wealthier part, to him and science went;

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With luck and her the poor remain'd content.

The matron sigh'd; for she was vex'd at heart,

With so much profit, so much fame, to part: