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Rh "how do things appear to you?" "Neither in extracting or in replacing," he answered, "did I suffer the least pain; but—bless me!—one eye looks up to the trees!" "Ah!" replied the first, "this is the very perfection of medicine. Neither of us is superior; henceforward we will be friends, as we are equals; and banish far off that spirit of contention which has destroyed our peace." The goat-eyed man of physic acquiesced; they lived from this time in the greatest amity.

My beloved, the two physicians are the new and the old law. Thus the Jews and Christians contend: the extracted eyes, denote those parts of the old law which Christians retain. The crow is the devil; and the goat's eye typifies those ceremonies of the Jews to which they attach so much importance, and by which they are not able to discern the truth.