"Monarch! a doctor follows me! Behold this wondrous prodigy!"     "Place for the doctor!" each one said—     He comes with spurs and whip, To every one he nods his head, As if he had been born and bred In Tartarus—the rip! As jaunty, fearless, full of nous As Britons in the Lower House.     "Good morrow, worthy sirs!—Ahem! I'm glad to see that here    (Where all they of Prometheus' stem Must come, whene'er the Fates condemn)     One meets with such good cheer! Why for Elysium care a rush? I'd rather see hell's fountains gush!"     "Stop! stop! his impudence, I vow, Its due reward shall meet; By Charles's wain, I swear it now! He must—no questions I'll allow,—     Prescribe me a receipt. All hell is mine, I'm Pluto hight! Make haste to bring your wares to light!"     The doctor, with a knowing look, The swarthy king surveyed; He neither felt his pulse, nor took The usual steps,—(see Galen's book),—     No difference 'twould have made As piercing as electric fire He eyed him to his heart's desire.     "Monarch! I'll tell thee in a trice The thing that's needed here; Though desperate may seem the advice—    The case itself is very nice—     And children dragons fear. Devil must devil eat!—no more!—    Either a wife,—or hellebore!     "Whether she scold, or sportive play,     ('Tween these, no medium's known),    She'll drive the incubus away That has assailed thee many a day Upon thine iron throne. She'll make the nimble spirits fleet Up towards the head, down towards the feet."     Long may the doctor honored be Who let this saying fall! He ought to have his effigy By Phidias sculptured, so that he May be discerned by all; A monument forever thriving, Boerhaave, Hippocrates, surviving! 

           REPROACH—TO LAURA. Maiden, stay!—oh, whither wouldst thou go? Do I still or pride or grandeur show? Maiden, was it right? Thou the giant mad'st a dwarf once more, Scattered'st far the mountains that of yore Climbed to glory's sunny height. Thou hast doomed my flowerets to decay, All the phantoms bright hast blown away, Whose sweet follies formed the hero's trust; All my plans that proudly raised their head Thou dost, with gentle zephyr-tread, Prostrate, laughing, in the dust. To the godhead, eagle-like, I flew,—    Smiling, fortune's juggling wheel to view, Careless wheresoe'er her ball might fly; Hovering far beyond Cocytus' wave, Death and life receiving like a slave—      Life and death from out one beaming eye! Like the victors, who, with thunder-lance, On the iron plain of glory dance, Starting from their mistress' breast,—    From 

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