THE STATE DOCTOR.
A BIT OF A FARCE.
Dramatis Personæ.
- RHUBARB PILL (a travelling doctor), by SIR ROBERT PEEL.
- BALAAM (his Man), by COLONEL SIBTHORP.
- COUNTRYMAN, by MR. BULL.
SCENE. Tamworth.
The Doctor and his Man are discovered in a large waggon, surrounded by a crowd of people.
RHUBARB PILL.—Balaam, blow the trumpet.
BALAAM (blows).—Too-too-tooit! Silence for the doctor!
RHUBARB PILL.—Now, friends and neighbours, now’s your time for getting rid of all your complaints, whether of the pocket or the person, for I, Rhubarb Pill, professor of sophistry and doctorer of laws, have now come amongst you with my old and infallible remedies and restoratives, which, although they have not already worked wonders, I promise shall do so, and render the constitution sound and vigorous, however it may have been injured by poor-law-bill-ious pills, cheap bread, and black sugar, prescribed by wooden-headed quacks. (Aside.) Balaam, blow the trumpet.