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 Void of all honor, avaricious, rash,
 The daring tribe compound their boasted trash--
  Tincture of syrup, lotion, read more 
 Void of all honor, avaricious, rash,
 The daring tribe compound their boasted trash--
  Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill;
   All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill. 
 Out, you impostors!
 Quack salving, cheating mountebanks! your skill
  Is to make sound men sick, and sick read more 
 Out, you impostors!
 Quack salving, cheating mountebanks! your skill
  Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill. 
 I bought an unction of a mountebank,
 So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,
  Where read more 
 I bought an unction of a mountebank,
 So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,
  Where it draws blood so cataplasm so rare,
   Collected from all simples that have virtue
    Under the moon, can save the thing from death
     That is but scratched withal. I'll touch my point
      With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,
       It may be death.