"Can you," she said, "ungrateful and unjust,
" Before experience, ostentation trust!
"What is your hazard, foolish daughters, tell?
" If safe, you're certain; if secure, you're well:
"That I have luck must friend and foe confess,
" And what's good judgment but a lucky guess?
" boasts, but what he  do: — will you run
" From me, your friend! who, all  boasts,  done?
"By proud and learned words his powers are known;
" By healthy boys and handsome girls my own:
"Wives! fathers! children! by my help you live;
" Has this pale Doctor more than life to give?
"No stunted cripple hops the village round;
" Your hands are active and your heads are sound:
"My lads are all your fields and flocks require;
" My lasses all those sturdy lads admire.
"Can this proud leech, with all his boasted skill,
" Amend the soul or body, wit or will?
"Does he for courts the sons of farmers frame,
" Or make the daughter differ from the dame?
"Or, whom he brings into this world of wo,
" Prepares he them their part to undergo?
"If not, this stranger from your doors repel,
" And be content to  and to be . "