A trio of triolets

The local Chemist has filled his window with some wonderful pharmaceutical memorabilia.

I saw this and remembered Gerard Manley Hopkins in "A Trio of Triolets"


No.2 Cockle's Antibilious Pills

'When you ask for Cockle's Pills,
Beware of spurious imitations.'
Yes, when you ask for every ill's
Cure, when you ask for Cockle's Pills,
Some hollow counterfeit that kills
Would fain mock that which heals the nations.
Oh, when you ask for Cockles' Pills
Beware of heartless imitations. (G M Hopkins c. 1876)