cough-mixture

Updated: June 19, 2025

Why, you are like the quack who offered a cough-mixture which was to cure instantaneously, and could hardly get the promise out for coughing. Yes, Sabinus, and there is plenty more of the same sort for an accuser like you to urge; the subject is all handles; you can take hold of it anywhere. I have been looking about for my best line of defence.

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