A CHANT FOR THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.
[Lord Dunraven is going to introduce a Bill to reform the College of Surgeons.]
Lo! they raise the gleaming scalpels, and the fearsome feuds begin
'Twixt the Members of the College that is hard by Lincoln's Inn.
College once of Barber Surgeons, but the Barbers left the Guild
To the "Company of Surgeons," by whom we are cured or killed.
And the College grants diplomas two-and-twenty inches long;
After which, in cutting limbs off, sure the tyro can't go wrong.
He can practise all the Surgeons' art and science; worded thus