TOOTHACHE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 59, 21 March 1879, Page 3

TOOTHACHE.

To have it. out or not — that is the question ; Whether it is better for the jaws to suffer The pangs and torments of an aching tooth, Or to take sted against a host of troubled, And, by extracting, end them ? To pull — to tvg — No more ; and by a tug to say we end Tne toothache and .a thousand natural ills *J' The jaw is heir to — "is a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To pull — to tvg — To tug ! perchance to break— aye, there's the rub. ' . For in that wren oh what agonies may come, When we have half- dislodged the stubborn ■foe, Must give us pause ; there's the respect That makes an acheipg tooth of so long a life; „ Ar- :•■ -'y For who would bear the whips andstings of pay., The old wife's nostrum, dentists' contumely, The pangs oi hopo deferred, kind sleep's delay, When he himself mighh his quietus make For, say, five shillings ? v Who woj_ld fardels hear, To groan and sink beneath a load of pain, But that the dread of Bouicthinsi' lodged within, The linen twisted f oredps, from whose paugs No jaw at ease returns, puzzles the will, And makes it rather bear the ills it has Than fly to others that it kno wp not of ? Thus dentists do make cow&r ds of us all ; And thus the nativo hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of fear ; And many a one, Whose courage 'seeks the "door " With this regard, his footsteps turns away, Scared at the name of dentist.