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,