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		<title>Franklin, Benjamin -- Poor Richard  (1747 ed.)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Pride</i> and the <i>Gout,</i><br />
Are seldom cur’d throughout.</p>
<br><b>Benjamin Franklin</b> (1706–1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist<br><i>Poor Richard </i> (1747 ed.) 
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		<title>Catullus -- Carmina #  71 &#8220;To Virro&#8221; [tr. Cranstoun (1867)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If e&#8217;er to worthy&#8217;s lot befell The grievance of a goatish smell; If e&#8217;er poor mortal limp&#8217;d about A martyr to the racking gout; Your lucky rival, on my oath, Has got a glorious share of both. So, oft as with your love he&#8217;s lain, You&#8217;ve had your vengeance on the twain His odour well-nigh [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If e&#8217;er to worthy&#8217;s lot befell<br />
<span class="tab">The grievance of a goatish smell;<br />
If e&#8217;er poor mortal limp&#8217;d about<br />
<span class="tab">A martyr to the racking gout;<br />
Your lucky rival, on my oath,<br />
<span class="tab">Has got a glorious share of both.<br />
So, oft as with your love he&#8217;s lain,<br />
<span class="tab">You&#8217;ve had your vengeance on the twain<br />
His odour well-nigh chokes the fair,<br />
<span class="tab">His gout is more than man can bear.<br />
&nbsp;<br />
<em>[Si cui iure bono sacer alarum obstitit hircus,<br />
aut si quem merito tarda podagra secat,<br />
Aemulus iste tuus, qui vestrum exercet amorem,<br />
mirifice est a te nactus utrumque malum.<br />
nam quotiens futuit totiens ulciscitur ambos:<br />
illam adfligit odore, ipse perit podagra.]</em></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<br><b>Catullus</b> (c. 84 BC – c. 54 BC) Latin poet [Gaius Valerius Catullus]<br>Carmina #  71 &#8220;To Virro&#8221; [tr. Cranstoun (1867)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t1hh7rq7f&seq=162&q1=gout" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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"To Virro" or "To Verro". Not surprisingly, many 19th and early 20th Century translators skip over this one.<br><br>

(<a href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0472.phi001.perseus-lat1:71">Source (Latin)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>If gouty pangs, or a rank goatish smell, <br>
<span class="tab">Did ever with poor mortal justly dwell; <br>
Thy rival, Virro, to console thy care, <br>
<span class="tab">Hath got of each disease an ample share: <br>
For, when in hot embrace the lovers burn, <br>
<span class="tab">She's choak'd with stench, and he with gout is torn.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t6154g976&seq=385&q1=%22gouty+pangs%22">Nott</a> (1795) #68]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>An of a goat-stink damned from armpits fusty one suffer,<br>
Or if a crippling gout worthily any one rack,<br>
'Tis that rival o' thine who lief in loves of you meddles,<br>
And, by a wondrous fate, gains him the twain of such ills.<br>
For that, oft as he ..., so oft that penance be two-fold;<br>
Stifles her stench of goat, he too is kilt by his gout.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0472.phi001.perseus-eng1:71">Burton</a> (1893)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>If ever anyone was deservedly cursed with an atrocious goat-stench from armpits, or if limping gout did justly gnaw one, it is your rival, who occupies himself with your love, and who wondrously has obtained each these ills from you. For as often as he takes his pleasure, he just as often takes vengeance on both; herself he prostrates by his stink, he is slain by his gout.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0472.phi001.perseus-eng2:71">Smithers</a> (1894)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>If there ever was a good fellow afflicted with rankness, or one who was racked for his sins with the gout, your rival who shares your privileges has got both from you to a marvel. Whenever they meet, they both pay dear for it; she is overwhelmed with the gust, he half dead with the gout.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/L006CatullusPoemsTibullusPervigiliumVeneris/page/n167/mode/2up?q=%22she+is+overwhelmed+with+the+gust%22">Warre Cornish</a> (1913)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>If ever honest fellow was afflicted<br>
<span class="tab">With goatish armpits, or a worthy dame <br>
In all her limbs by gout was held constricted,<br>
<span class="tab">Then, my good Virro, Mr. What's his name, <br>
Who shares your mistress with you, now must see <br>
That he in both is made your legatee.<br>
He pays a double price for every bout: <br>
His smell offends her, she gives him her gout.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106015467548&seq=146&q1=virro">Wright</a> (1926)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>My friend, your rival (if anyone) deserves the curses that have fallen upon him,<br>
for the smell of a goat leaps from his armpits and he is woe fully lamed by fiery sciatica.<br>
But here's a double miracle: since he has inherited your diseases<br>
when he sleeps with your lady she faints away (killed maybe) by the vicious<br>
goat hidden in his arms, while he, poor bastard, lies impotent, weak with the frantic pain<br>
rising from his sciatica.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106001542577&seq=289&q1=%22my+friend,+your+rival%22">Gregory</a> (1931)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>If anyone ever deserved such underarm goatodor<br>
<span class="tab">or ever merited gout's terrible swellings,<br>
it's that rival of yours, who's sharing not only your mistress<br>
<span class="tab">but -- quite miraculously -- your diseases also!<br>
Whenever he fucks her, both of them suffer your vengeance:<br>
<span class="tab">she gets your goat & he's the one that your gout gets.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Poems_of_Catullus/y_HafujaJM4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22if%20anyone%20ever%20deserved%22">C. Martin</a> (1979)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>If a goat’s smell under the arms rightly prevents anyone,<br>
or if a slow gout deservedly cripples them,<br>
your rival, who keeps your lover busy,<br>
is discovered by you to be wonderfully sick with both.<br>
Now whenever he fucks her, you’re revenged on the pair:<br>
she’s troubled by the smell, he’s ruined by the gout.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/Catullus.php#anchor_Toc531846797:~:text=If%20a%20goat%E2%80%99s,by%20the%20gout.">Kline</a> (2001)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>If the damnable goat in the armpits justly hurt anyone,<br>
<span class="tab">or limping gout ever rightfully caused pain,<br>
that rival of yours, busy humping your shared lover,<br>
<span class="tab">by contracting both maladies wonderfully fits the bill:<br>
Every time that he fucks, he punishes both parties:<br>
<span class="tab">the odor sickens her, the gout slays him.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Poems_of_Catullus/4qsYinaVXQ8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22damnable%20goat%22">Green</a> (2005)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Byron, George Gordon, Lord -- Don Juan, Canto  1, st. 216 (1818)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My days of love are over; me no more<br />
<span class="tab">The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow,<br />
Can make the fool of which they made before, &#8212;<br />
<span class="tab">In short, I must not lead the life I did do;<br />
The credulous hope of mutual minds is o&#8217;er,<br />
<span class="tab">The copious use of claret is forbid too,<br />
So for a good old-gentlemanly vice,<br />
I think I must take up with avarice.</p>
<br><b>George Gordon, Lord Byron</b> (1788–1824) English poet<br><i>Don Juan</i>, Canto  1, st. 216 (1818) 
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		<title>Franklin, Benjamin -- Poor Richard  (1734 ed.)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth;<br />
Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.</p>
<br><b>Benjamin Franklin</b> (1706–1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist<br><i>Poor Richard </i> (1734 ed.) 
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