Be pleased to tie a stone about the neck of the apothecary, and a halter about the neck of the nurse, and throw the one into the next river, and the other over the next tree, and in so doing you will do a charitable deed to your fellow-creatures; for he and she do the devil's work in partnership, and have sent many a score of their betters home to him before their time." -- "Oh, he begins to talk sensibly."-- "Have a good heart," said the physician.

"What is your disorder ?"--"Physic."-- "What do you chiefly complain of ?"--"The doctor."-- "Does your head ache ?"--"Yea, with impertinence." "Have you a pain in your back ?"--"Yes, where the blister lies."-- "Are you sick at stomach ?"--"Yes, with hunger."-- "Do you feel any shiverings ?"--"Always at sight of the apothecary."-- "Do you perceive any load in your bowels ?"--"I would the apothecary's conscience was as clear."-- "Are you thirsty ?"--"Not thirsty enough to drink barley-water." -- "Be pleased to look into his fauces," said the apothecary; "he has got a rough tongue, and a very foul mouth, I'll assure you."-- "I have known that the case with some limbs of the faculty, where they stood more in need of correction than of physic .-- Well, my honest friend, since you have already undergone the proper purgations in due form, and say you have no other disease than the doctor, we will set you on your legs again without further question.

Here, nurse, open that window, and throw these phials into the street.

Now lower the curtain, without shutting the casement, that the man may not be stifled in his own steam.

In the next place, take off two-thirds of these coals, and one-third of these blankets .-- How dost feel now, my heart ?" "I should feel heart-whole, if so be as yow would throw the noorse a'ter the bottles, and the 'pothecary a'ter the noorse, and oorder me a pound of chops for my dinner, for I be so hoongry, I could eat a horse behind the saddle." The apothecary, seeing what passed, retired of his own accord, holding up his hands in sign of astonishment.