'Twas very true; I've seen it fully proved:

The remedy all obstacles removed;

'Tis from the root of certain tree expressed;

A juice most potent ev'ry where confessed,

And Mandrake called, which taken by a wife;

More pow'r evinces o'er organick life,

Than from conventual grace was e'er derived,

Though in the cloister youthful friars hived.

TEN months from hence I'll you a father make;

No longer time than that I ask to take;