My case forlorn, in doleful ditty,
To melt your worships’ hearts to pity.
Sirs, I have been in high condition,
A right respectable Physician;
And passed, with men of shrewd discerning,
For wight of most prodigious learning;
For I could quote, with flippant ease,
Grave Galen and Hippocrates,
Brown, Cullen, Sydenham and such men,
Besides a shoal of learned Dutchmen.[10]