_King of England._ What can you cure? _Noble Doctor._ All sorts of diseases, Whatever you pleases: I can cure the itch, the pitch, The phthisic, the palsy and the gout; And if the devil’s in the man, I can fetch him out. My wisdom lies in my wig, I torture not my patients with excations, Such as pills, boluses, solutions, and embrocations; But by the word of command I can make this mighty prince to stand. _King._ What is your fee? _Doctor._ Ten pounds is true. _King._ Proceed, Noble Doctor; You shall have your due. _Doctor._ Arise, arise! most noble prince, arise, And no more dormant lay; And with thy sword Make all thy foes obey. [_The Prince arises._ _Prince George._ My head is made of iron, My body is made of steel, My legs are made of crooked bones To force you all to yield. _Enter Beelzebub._ In comes I, old Beelzebub, Over my shoulder I carry my club, And in my hand a frying-pan, Pleased to get all the money I can. _Enter Clown._ In come I, who’s never been yet, With my great head and little wit: My head is great, my wit is small, I’ll do my best to please you all. _Song_ (_all join_). And now we are done and must be gone, No longer will we stay here; But if you please, before we go, We’ll taste your Christmas beer. [_Exeunt omnes._ L THE PROSE OF THE ASS [The text is taken from the following sources:— i. _Beauvais, thirteenth century._—(_a_) [Duc.]—Ducange, _Glossarium_ (ed. 1733-6), s.v. _Festum_, from a lost MS.; copied incorrectly by Gasté, 23, and apparently also by Clément, 158: (_b_) [B¹]—_Brit. Mus. Egerton MS._ 2615, f. 1, with music for singing in unison: (_c_) [B²]—Same _MS._ f. 43, with music harmonized in three parts; partly facsimiled in _Annales Archéologiques_ (1856), xvi. 259, 300. ii. _Sens, thirteenth century._—[S]—_MS. Senonense_, 46ᵃ, as printed by G. M. Dreves, _Analecta Hymnica_, xx. 217. The text has also been given from the MS. by F. Bourquelot, in _Bull. de la Soc. Arch. de Sens_ (1858), vi. 79, and others. The version of Clément, 126 is probably, like the facsimile given by him in _Ann. Arch._ vii. 26, based on one ‘calqué’ from the MS. by a M. Amé, and, where it differs from that of Dreves, is the less trustworthy. Dreves, xx. 257 (cf. _infra_) and Millin, _Monum. Ant. Inédits_, ii. 348, also give the music of the opening lines. Modern settings are provided by B. De la Borde, _Essai sur la Musique_ (1780), and Clément, in _Ann. Arch._ vii. 26, and _Chantes de la Sainte Chapelle_. An old French translation of the text is printed in Leber, ix. 368. On these Beauvais and Sens MSS. cf. ch. xiii.