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 Learn'd he was in medic'nal lore,
 For by his side a pouch he wore,
  Replete with strange read more 
 Learn'd he was in medic'nal lore,
 For by his side a pouch he wore,
  Replete with strange hermetic powder
   That wounds nine miles point-blank would solder. 
 Trust not the physician;
 His antidotes are poison, and he slays
  More than you rob.  
 Trust not the physician;
 His antidotes are poison, and he slays
  More than you rob. 
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
 'Tis not amiss, ere ye're giv'n o'er,
 To try one desp'rate med'cine more;
  For where your case read more 
 'Tis not amiss, ere ye're giv'n o'er,
 To try one desp'rate med'cine more;
  For where your case can be no worse,
   The desp'rat'st is the wisest course. 
 When taken
 To be well shaken.  
 When taken
 To be well shaken. 
There is no medicine to cure hatred
There is no medicine to cure hatred
 You tell your doctor, that y' are ill
 And what does he, but write a bill,
  Of read more 
 You tell your doctor, that y' are ill
 And what does he, but write a bill,
  Of which you need not read one letter,
   The worse the scrawl, the dose the better.
    For if you knew but what you take,
     Though you recover, he must break. 
 (Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor?
 (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord,
  As she is troubled with read more 
 (Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor?
 (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord,
  As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies
   That keep her from her rest.
    (Macbeth:) Cure her of that!
     Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
      Pluck from the memory of a rooted sorrow,
       Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
        And with some sweet oblivious antidote
         Cleanse the stuffed bosom of the perilous stuff
          Which weighs upon the heart?
           (Doctor:) Therein the patient
            Must minister to himself.
             (Macbeth:) Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it! 
 You behold in me
 Only a travelling Physician;
  One of the few who have a mission
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 You behold in me
 Only a travelling Physician;
  One of the few who have a mission
   To cure incurable diseases,
    Or those that are called so.