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The selfsame patient put to test / Two doctors, Fear-the-worst and Hope-the-best. / The latter hoped; the former did maintain / The man would take all medicine in vain. / By different cures the patient was beset, / But erelong cancell'd nature's debt, / While nursed / As was prescribed by Fear-the-worst. / But over the disease both triumph'd still. / Said one, 'I well foresaw his death. ' / 'Yes,' said the other, 'but my pill / Would certainly have saved his breath. '[1]
[1]: Aesop, and others.