CHAUCER
Why, true;
Then there remains but one sure remedy,
Thus: bid him, fasting, when the moon is wane,
And Venus rises in the house of Pisces,
To rub it nine times with a herring’s tail.
DOCTOR
Yea, Pisces is a fish.—I thank you, sir.
[He hurries off to the Cook, whose nose he has patched.]
HOST