What 's in the chance should move me from my mind?

If, as I walk in a rough country-side,

Peasants of mine cry, "Thou art he can help,

Lord of the land and counted wise to boot:

Look at our brother, strangling in his foam,

He fell so where we find him,—prove thy worth!"

I may presume, pronounce, "A frenzy-fit,

A falling-sickness or a fever-stroke!

Breathe a vein, copiously let blood at once!"

So perishes the patient, and anon