Prince of physicians! Who’d not welcome thee,

Deserves rejection. Do his eyes not see?”

Urbanity’s requirements thus bested,

Our prince the stranger to a chamber led.70

The maiden’s tale and case he there unfolds.

The patient, next, unveiled, the guest beholds.

Complexion, pulse, egesta, all are seen;

Disposing causes, symptoms, sought, I ween.

Then he: “The remedies till now adduced,

Have detrimental been, no good produced.