Classic Poem

Prue, my dearest maid, is sick,
Almost to be lunatic:
Æsculapius! come and bring
Means for her recovering;
And a gallant cock shall be
Offer'd up by her to thee.

Cock, the traditional offering to Æsculapius; cp. the last words of
Socrates; cp. Ben Jonson, Epig. xiii.