From frugal meals: and first they can bestow
That prime of blessings, health; for you’ll confess
That various meats the stomach must oppress,
If you reflect how light, how well you were,
When plain and simple was the chearful fare;
But roast and boil’d when you promiscuous eat,
When fowl and shell-fish in confusion meet,
Sweets, turn’d to choler, with cold phlegm engage,
And in the stomach civil warfare wage.
Francis’s Horace, lib. 2. sat. 2.