Book VII, Epigram 38: De Caelio

When various walks, and dayes in wandring on,
And pride, and great mens salutation,
Caelius could not endure, and bear about,
He feign'd himself tormented with the gout,
Which while he strove to personate too much,
In a laborious gate upon his crutch,
Binding, and 'noynting his sound feet: O see
How much the care and curiositie,
And Art of feigned grief, did work and please!
Caelius has left dissembling his disease.