This is the way physicians mend or end us,

Secundum artem: but although we sneer

In health—when ill, we call them to attend us,

Without the least propensity to jeer;

While that "hiatus maxime deflendus"

To be filled up by spade or mattock's near,

Instead of gliding graciously down Lethe,

We tease mild Baillie,[545] or soft Abernethy.