by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
The physician
Language: English
I study to uphold The slippery state of man, Who dies when we have done The best and all we can. From practice and from books I draw my learned skill, Not from the known receipt Or ’pothecary’s bill. The earth my faults doth hide, The world my cures doth see, What youth and time effects Is oft ascribed to me.
Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. by A. H. Bullen, London, John C. Nimmo, 1887, page 183.
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Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by John Maynard (c1577 - 1633), "The physician", published 1611, from the collection Twelve Wonders of the World [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2014-02-25
Line count: 12
Word count: 61