Pasties, ragouts, and fricassees,

Without my seasoning, fail to please:

’Tis I, like wit, must give a zest,

And sprightliness to ev’ry feast.

“Physicians too my use confess;

My influence sagest matrons bless;

When drams prove vain, and cholics teaze,

To me they fly for certain ease.

Nay, I fresh vigour can dispense,

And cure ev’n age and impotence: