That learn’d physicians pine with hunger,[80]
The while a spruce young patent-monger
Contrives to wheedle simple ninnies,
And tractorize away our guineas.
That many thousand cures attested
Show death’s cold hand full oft arrested;
But those who from his prey would part him,
Should manage things secundum artem.
That none should ancient customs vary,
Nor leges physicæ mutare;