Sbri. To avoid remedies so salutary as yours is to be a great enemy to oneself.
1st Phy. It is the mark of a disturbed brain and of a depraved reason to be unwilling to be cured.
Sbri. You would have cured him, for certain, in no time.
1st Phy. Certainly; though there had been the complication of a dozen diseases.
Sbri. With all that he makes you lose those fifty well-earned pistoles.
1st Phy. I have no intention of losing them; and I am determined to cure him in spite of himself. He is bound and engaged to take my remedies; and I will have him seized, wherever I can find him, as a deserter from physic and an infringer of my prescriptions.
Sbri. You are right. Your medicines were sure of their effect; and it is so much money he takes from you.
1st Phy. Where could I find him?
Sbri. No doubt, at the house of that goodman Oronte, whose daughter he comes to marry; and who, knowing nothing of the infirmity of his future son-in-law, will perhaps be in a hurry to conclude the marriage.
1st Phy. I will go and speak to him at once.