So skilled the parson was in homiletics That all his normal purges and emetics To medicine the spirit were compounded With a most just discrimination founded Upon a rigorous examination Of tongue and pulse and heart and respiration. Then, having diagnosed each one's condition, His scriptural specifics this physician Administered--his pills so efficacious And pukes of disposition so vivacious That souls afflicted with ten kinds of Adam Were convalescent ere they knew they had 'em. But Slander's tongue--itself all coated--uttered Her bilious mind and scandalously muttered That in the case of patients having money The pills were sugar and the pukes were honey.

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So skilled the parson was in homiletics That all his normal purges and… — The Devil's Dictionary