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30 The languid stomach curses even the pure Delicious fat, and all the race of oil; For more the oily aliments relax Its feeble tone; and with the eager lymph (Fond to incorporate with all it meets) Coily they mix; and shun with slippery wiles The wooed embrace. Th' irresoluble oil, So gentle late and blandishing, in floods Of rancid bile o'erflows: What tumults hence, What horrors rise, were nauseous to relate. Chuse leaner viands, ye of jovial make! Chuse sober meals; and rouse to active life Your cumbrous clay; nor on th' enfeebling down, Irresolute, protract the morning hours. But let the man, whose bones are thinly clad, With chearful ease, and succulent repast Improve his slender habit. Each extreme From the blest mean of sanity departs. Rh