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B. II. Burn in the palms, and parch the roughning tongue; Or much diminish or too much increase Th' expence which nature's wise oeconomy, Without or waste or avarice, maintains. Such cates abjur'd, let prouling hunger loose, And bid the curious palate roam at will; They scarce can err amid the various stores That burst the teeming entrails of the world.


 * Led by sagacious taste, the ruthless king

Of beasts on blood and slaughter only lives: The tyger, form'd alike to cruel meals, Would at the manger starve: Of milder seeds, The generous horse to herbage and to grain Confines his wish; tho' fabling Greece resound The Thracian steeds with human carnage wild. Prompted by instinct's never-erring power, Each creature knows its proper aliment; Rh