The Pearl/Volume 5/The Triumph of Science Over Physic.

Home they brought the warrior, fed To repletion more than just; And the servants, chuckling, said. "He must shit or he will bust."

Then they gave him castor oil. Pills and drugs of many a sort; Yet despite their loving toil, He would not be taken short.

Stole a maiden to the spot. And emetics, laughing, dared; Yet in vain she held the pot, For he only belched and glared.

Came a nurse of ninety years. An enema huge she bore; Shoved it up amidst their jeers, And he shat for evermore.