Social Commentaries
The Remedy Worse than the Disease
From Lyra Elegantiarum, ed. Frederick Locker (London: E. Moxon, 1867)
Social Commentaries
I sent for Ratcliffe; was so ill,
That other doctors gave me over:
He felt my pulse, prescribed his pill,
And I was likely to recover.
But when the wit began to wheeze,
And wine had warm'd the politician,
Cured yesterday of my disease,
I died last night of my physician.
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Prior, Matthew. “The Remedy Worse than the Disease.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/46/.
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Prior, Matthew. “The Remedy Worse than the Disease.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/46/.
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