And when Dr. Johnson complained to Mrs. Piozzi, that her tea was so strong as to make him tipsy, he was thus answered by that learned lady:
Equidem de Te nil tale verebar.
E.B.I.
Dum aeger ait, "ah! ah!"
Tu dicito, "da, da."
Mirror, No. 568, p. 208.
Translation.
While the sick man in pain cries out "ah! me!"
Tell him "before I cure, first pay my fee."