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The Doctors.

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[1]      The selfsame patient put to test      Two doctors, Fear-the-worst and Hope-the-best.      The latter hoped; the former did maintain      The man would take all medicine in vain.      By different cures the patient was beset,      But erelong cancell'd nature's debt,      While nursed      As was prescribed by Fear-the-worst.      But over the disease both triumph'd still.      Said one, 'I well foresaw his death.'      'Yes,' said the other, 'but my pill      Would certainly have saved his breath.'

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