Pressing his prey, when at the door appeared

—Who but his Wife the Bad? Whereof one dose,

One grain, one mite of the medicament,

Sufficed him. Up he sprang. One word, too gross

To soil my lips with,—and through ceiling went

Somehow the Husband. "That a storm 's dispersed

We know for certain by the sulphury scent!

"Hail to the Doctor! Who but one so versed

In all Dame Nature's secrets had prescribed

The staff thus opportunely? Style him first