To hear some pregnant word from one so learned.
Three years, God knows, is a short time,
And we have far to go, and high to climb;
A wise man’s fingers pointing to the goal
Will save full many a groan to many a labouring soul.
Mephistopheles. [aside]
I’m weary of this dry pedantic strain,
’Tis time to play the genuine devil again.
[Aloud.] The spirit of Medicine ’tis not hard to seize:
The world, both great and small, you seek to know,