And, spite of my fellow-practitioners’ blame,

I think it will bring me both lucre and fame

(Said I to myself, said I).

The result, I am glad to report, has been good,

For I’ve earned the large fortune I said that I would,

And as to my fame, it is easy to tell

From the way that I’m hated I’ve won that as well.

So jealous, in fact, are my rivals, I think

They hardly from my vivisection would shrink,

In order to find, by their treatment of me,