Philo, the lawyer, and the fortune-teller,
The school-master, the midwife, and the bawd,
The conjurer, the buyer and the seller
Of painting which with breathing will be thaw'd,
Doth practise physic; and his credit grows,
As doth the ballad-singer's auditory,
Which hath at Temple-Bar his standing chose,
And to the vulgar sings an ale-house story:
First stands a porter; then an oyster-wife
Doth stint her cry and stay her steps to hear him;
Then comes a cutpurse ready with his knife,
And then a country client presseth near him;
There stands the constable, there stands the whore,
And, hearkening to the song, mark not each other;
There by the serjeant stands the debitor,
And doth no more mistrust him than his brother:
This Orpheus to such hearers giveth music,
And Philo to such patients giveth physic.