Social Commentaries
Epigram on Le Fevre's Curing the Gout
From Analects in Verse and Prose, vol. II (London, 1770)
Social Commentaries
Old Guttle, one morning, was making a rout,
And grinn'd with the pangs of the tort'ring gout,
Nurse talk'd of a cure; but he would not believe her;
She told him, the gout was now cur'd by a Fever.
Then I'll keep the gout, madam Nurse, if you please,
Your remedy's worse than my present disease.
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