Where wast thou, wittol Ward, when hapless fate,
From these weak arms mine aged grannam tore:
These pious arms essay’d too late,
To drive the dismal phantom from the door.
Could not thy healing drop, illustrious Quack,
Could not thy salutary pill prolong her days;
For whom, so oft, to Marybone, alack!
Thy sorrels dragg’d thee, thro’ the worst of ways!
Oil-dropping Twick’nham did not then detain
Thy steps, tho’ tended by the Cambrian maids;