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