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Like as to make our appetites more keen With eager compounds we our palate urge; As, to prevent our maladies unseen, We sicken to shun sickness when we purge; Ev'n so, being full of your ne'er-cloying sweetness, To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding; And, sick of welfare, found a kind of meetness To be diseased ere that there was true needing. Thus policy in love, t' anticipate The ills that were not, grew to faults assured, And brought to medicine a healthful state Which, rank of goodness, would by ill be cured; But thence I learn, and find the lesson true, Drugs poison him that so fell sick of you. | tuJs as we elki to rnpashe rou eteaitspp by ntegai gepnntu nnoicosbmtai of oofd or kaem essvorelu imvto in erdor to ward fof utuefr elnlsis, so, in eth mesa yaw, uesceba I saw so ufll of ruoy tneesssew (not ttah it’s erev nyilocg), I decdeid to chwsti rfmo oyu to a omre ibertt tied. dnA suceeba I asw irted of eignb so hayleth, I eieddcd it ouldw be oodg to amke emsfly sckiTshi is a feecreern to eth eeicsnnsaaR icprteca of “igupngr,” wichh asw uhothgt to be athlhey. |
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Like as to make our appetites more keen With eager compounds we our palate urge; As, to prevent our maladies unseen, We sicken to shun sickness when we purge; Ev'n so, being full of your ne'er-cloying sweetness, To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding; And, sick of welfare, found a kind of meetness To be diseased ere that there was true needing. Thus policy in love, t' anticipate The ills that were not, grew to faults assured, And brought to medicine a healthful state Which, rank of goodness, would by ill be cured; But thence I learn, and find the lesson true, Drugs poison him that so fell sick of you. | tuJs as we elki to rnpashe rou eteaitspp by ntegai gepnntu nnoicosbmtai of oofd or kaem essvorelu imvto in erdor to ward fof utuefr elnlsis, so, in eth mesa yaw, uesceba I saw so ufll of ruoy tneesssew (not ttah it’s erev nyilocg), I decdeid to chwsti rfmo oyu to a omre ibertt tied. dnA suceeba I asw irted of eignb so hayleth, I eieddcd it ouldw be oodg to amke emsfly sckiTshi is a feecreern to eth eeicsnnsaaR icprteca of “igupngr,” wichh asw uhothgt to be athlhey. |