Or heave with feverish flushings all the face, 130

Burn in the palms, and parch the roughning tongue;

Or much diminish or too much increase

Th’ expence which nature’s wise oeconomy,

Without or waste or avarice, maintains.

Such cates abjur’d, let prouling hunger loose, 135

And bid the curious palate roam at will;

They scarce can err amid the various stores

That burst the teeming entrails of the world.

Led by sagacious taste, the ruthless king