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Like^as | to make | our ap|petites | more* keen,
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With eag|er com|pounds^we | our pal|ate urge;
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As to | prevent | our mal|adies | unseen,
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We sick|en to / shun sick|ness when | we purge;
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Eene so,| being full | of your / nere-cloy|ing
sweet|ness
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To bit|ter sauc|es did | I frame | my feed|ing;
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And sick | of wel|fare found a kind | of
meet|ness
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To be | diseased | ere* that | there was / true
need|ing.
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Thus pol|icy | in love,| to anti|cipate
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The ills | that were | not grew to faults | assured,
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And brought | to med|icine | a health|ful state
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Which rank | of good|ness would | by ill | be
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But thence | I learn | and find | the les|son
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Drugs poison him | that so | fell* sick | of you.
Lines 5–8 are hexameter