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32. Upon an Emperick, who sold a Drop of Balsam, very Deer.
Sir Quack, his Patient told, nothing could cure,The stubborn Feaver; did He not endure,
To pay for precious Balsam; to be found,
With none but Him; One Drop, would cost ten Pound.
Five I require, to have lay'd down, in Hand:
The other, when you're well; I shall demand.
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What is ten pound, to secure a Mans Life?
The Bargain's made; from a well-cover'd Glasse,
A Grain of this Elixar, taken was.
The sick crav'd all; as willing to be sound:
No; the Remainder's worth, an hundred pound.
Besides the present Dose, would stand instead:
And so it did; for He was quickly dead.
Unhappy Bargain! what won't the Fates do?
Life was not onely lost; but Balsam too.
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