Peter Hammill - "The Herbalist" lyrics

The Herbalist Good evening, sir. And you must be the friend of Mister Usher. I'm so pleased to meet you, sir, but have little time to spare for knowledge such as mine is wanted everywhere. In poor dwellings, yes, but some as great as Usher's. My card... MONTRESOR 'J. Ducrow, Esq. Herbalist, Doctor of Natural Medicine'... HERBALIST At you service, and it could be, sir, that you have need of my panaceas now... I have Mandrake juice that will slake any fever, cures to convince you though you be an unbeliever now... Laugh - would you? - at these seeds of mine. You question the cure's causes, but Logic and Reason do not answer, and Nature runs her courses. I have purest poppy for the soundest of sleeps; a pure cake of hemp plant that's a warranted surcease of worldly sorrow. Lying words will be believed if perfumed by this pastil, or my elixir's guaranteed to bend the will of fairest womankind. Scheme, would you, for a worldly gain? Lust after a frigid virgin? My herbs can grant your secret cravings and my price is modest! MONTRESOR No! No! HERBALIST And my price is modest... MONTRESOR No, thank you! No! HERBALIST Oh it's very modest... MONTRESOR No, no thank you! No! No thank you, No! HERBALIST Perhaps a poultice of Toadbane for weakness of the manly parts, caused by too much wine or age, perhaps by over-frequent natural indulgence... Applied with sk**, it will revive the fleshy pa**ions of a corpse... ...of a corpse MONTRESOR I said no I meant no! HERBALIST Well then, Good-day...