Ribald Classic: The Tunbridge Doctors
January, 1973
Anonymous song fromThe New Academy of Complements. 1671You maidens and wives and young widows, rejoice!Declare your thanksgiving with heart and with voice!Since waters were waters, I dare boldly say,There ne'er was such cause of a thanksgiving day!For from London Town there's lately come downFour able physicians that never wore gown:Their physic is pleasant, their dose it is large,And you may be cured without danger or charge.No bolus nor vomit, no potion nor pill(Which sometimes do cure, but of...
