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Like as, to make our appetites more keen,
正如為了有更好的胃口，
With eager compounds we our palate urge,
我們常用酸辣味刺激舌頭——
As, to prevent our maladies unseen,
同樣吃夠了你那永不膩味的甘甜，
We sicken to shun sickness when we purge, Even so, being full of your ne'er-cloying sweetness,
我們服瀉藥用假病來把真病趕走。
To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding
我轉而去把苦味的食物消受。
And, sick of welfare, found a kind of meetness
健康久了，就覺得生生病也好，
To be diseased ere that there was true needing.
雖說本來就不必有這種需求。
Thus policy in love, to anticipate
愛的本意是要防止未發的疾病，
The ills that were not, grew to faults assured
卻不料這種做法使疾病弄假成真：
And brought to medicine a healthful state
好端端的身子卻偏要受罪于藥石，
Which, rank of goodness, would by ill be cured:
原本是善的東西卻要讓惡來醫治。
But thence I learn, and find the lesson true,
不過，我倒因此獲得了真正的開悟，
Drugs poison him that so fell sick of you.
誰要是厭倦了你，藥石也變成劇毒。
