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Try all the bounties of this fertile globe,

There is not such a salutary food,

As suits with every stomach. But (except,

Amid the mingled mass of fish and fowl,

And boil’d and bak’d, you hesitate by which 125

You sunk oppress’d, or whether not by all;)

Taught by experience soon you may discern

What pleases, what offends. Avoid the cates

That lull the sicken’d appetite too long;