Besides provoking the lascivious taste. 180
Such various foods, tho’ harmless each alone,
Each other violate; and oft we see
What strife is brew’d, and what pernicious bane,
From combinations of innoxious things.
Th’ unbounded taste I mean not to confine 185
To hermit’s diet, needlessly severe.
But would you long the sweets of health enjoy,
Or husband pleasure; at one impious meal
Exhaust not half the bounties of the year,