Which boasting by result was justified,
Big as might words be: whether drugged or left
Drugless, the patient always lived, not died.
Great the heir's gratitude, so nigh bereft
Of all he prized in this world: sweet the smile
Of disconcerted rivals: "Cure?—say, theft
"From Nature in despite of Art—so style
This off-hand kill-or-cure work! You did much,
I had done more: folk cannot wait awhile!"
But did the case change? was it—"Scarcely such