School: Alt Achadh Doire (roll number 15474)
- Location:
- Altaghaderry, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig L. Mac Diarmada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1107, Page 177
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- (continued from previous page)Five pounds for a doctor
There's not a doctor to be found
To cure this young prince
Of his deep an deadly wine
My broad sword
I'll stand your blood
Before this young prince's life I can save
Fifty guineas I must have.What can you cure doctor,
I can cure the plague within,
The plague without,
The bulgy or the gout,
If there were nine devils in
I could knock ten out.What's your medicine doctor?
The puddings of a louce,
The guts of a mouse
And the heart's blood of a creepy-stool
Put that to your soul
As hot as you can endure
Six mornings before day-break
If that doesn't cure you
The devil may cure you
So as I may get my fee besides all that(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Mc Glinchey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leitrim, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Edward Mc Glinchey
- Gender
- Male
