To aid their skill and save the lingering life;
But this must virtue’s generous effort be,
And spring from nobler motives than a fee:
To the Physician of the Soul, and these,
Turn the distress’d for safety, hope, and ease.
But as physicians of that nobler kind
Have their warm zealots, and their sectaries blind;
So among these for knowledge most renowned,
Are dreamers strange, and stubborn bigots found:
Some, too, admitted to this honourd name,