The instant he’s lampooned, he’s lost self-control.
Thus, pill or draught taken to combat disease,
A long time, indeed, you’re thence robbed of all ease.
And if you eat sweetmeats, their tastes are soon lost.
Nor one, nor the other, is worth half the cost.
Duration they have not; effects they produce.
By contraries, contraries all we deduce.325
As hidden effect of a diet of sweets,
By long incubation, boils break out, or gleets.
The flesh, with praise pampered, a Pharaoh becomes.