LXXII.

And fruits, and ice, and all that Art refines From Nature for the service of the _goût_-- _Taste_ or the _gout_,--pronounce it as inclines Your stomach! Ere you dine, the French will do; But _after_, there are sometimes certain signs Which prove plain English truer of the two. Hast ever _had_ the _gout_? I have not had it-- But I may have, and you too, reader, dread it.