Volume Iv Part 29 (2/2)

Sir _Cred._ Hold, Brothers, I do not say the occasion of his Death; but the occasional Cause of his Death.

[Sir _Pat._ reads the Bill.

Sir _Pat._ Why, here's no time allow'd for eating, Gentlemen.

_Amst._ Sir, we'll justify this Prescription to the whole College.

_Leyd._ If he will not follow it, let him die.

_All._ Ay, let him die.

Enter _Lodwick_ and _Leander_.

_Lod._ What, have you consulted without me, Gentlemen?

[_Lod._ reads the Bill.

Sir _Pat._ Yes, Sir, and find it absolutely necessary for my Health, Sir, I shou'd be starv'd: and yet you say I am not sick, Sir.

[To _Lean._

_Lod._ Very well, very well.

Sir _Pat._ No Breakfast, no Dinner, no Supper?

Sir _Cred._ Little or none, but none's best.

Sir _Pat._ But, Gentlemen, consider, no small thing?

_All._ Nothing, nothing.

Sir _Cred._ Sir, you must write for your Fee. [To _Lod._

_Lod._ Now I think on't, Sir, you may eat [Writes.

a roasted Pippin cold upon a Vine-leaf, at night.

_Lean._ Do you see, Sir, what d.a.m.n'd canting Rascals these Doctors are?

Sir _Pat._ Ay, ay, if all Doctors were such, ingenuously, I shou'd soon be weary of Physick.

_Lean._ Give 'em their Fees, Sir, and send 'em to the Devil for a Company of Cheats.

Sir _Pat._ Truth is, there is no faith in 'em,--well, I thank you for your Care and Pains.

[Gives 'em Fees.

Sir _Cred._ Sir, if you have any occasion for me, I live at the red-colour'd Lanthorn, with eleven Candles in't, in the _Strand_; where you may come in privately, and need not be ashamed, I having no Creature in my House but my self, and my whole Family.--

_Ick quam Van Neder Landt te spreken End helpen Van Pocken end ander gebreken._

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