The Doctor spoke; and as the patient heard,
His old disorders (dreadful train!) appear’d;
“He felt the tingling tremor, and the stress
Upon his nerves that he could not express;
Should his good friend forsake him, he perhaps
Might meet his death, and surely a relapse.”
So, as the Doctor seem’d intent to part,
He cried in terror - “Oh! be where thou art:
Come, thou art young, and unengaged; oh! come,
Make me thy friend, give comfort to mine home;