“’Twas wondrous well;” - and proudly rode away.
The news ran round; - “How vast the Doctor’s pow’r!”
He saved the Lady in the trying hour;
Saved her from death, when she was dead to hope,
And her fond husband had resign’d her up:
So all, like her, may evil fate defy,
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;